Losing Teeth
29/07/2009
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40 days and 40 nights in the Manchester Museum
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The Tooth Fairy will struggle to get into your tower.
I think the carved tusk is from the Congo and was carved in the 19th century. I remember collecting from an old lady in Greater Manchester along with a collection of other ivory carvings. This collection included a white man being carried in a hammock by 2 Africans and this carving was displayed in the Contact and Tourism case at the entrance of the first Living Cultures gallery (now the Manchester gallery). I think the African climbing the tree on this tusk (second up from bottom) may be trying to get palm oil, which can be made into palm wine, a strong drink.