Powder horn with carved animals
Date17th century
Maker
Indian
Label TextDogs—with teeth bared, hair bristling, and ears laid back—chase after their prey. The sequence of animals skillfully added to this horn may relate to chivalric hunting scenes in European woodcuts, which were furnished to Indian artists by their European patrons.
Object number47.19
Provenance[Heeramaneck Galleries, New York]; purchased from gallery with funds from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
DimensionsL.: 10 1/4 in.
MediumIvory
Indian
ca. second half of the 9th century
Object number: 48.166
Indian
ca. 1500 - 1700
Object number: 66.6
Songye culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Object number: 68.34
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