Featured An intersting Ivory sculpture

Could anyone me the topic, origin, and age of this piece.

It looks like a kind of tribe worship scene ... they waiting in line and climbing a tower, by the top there is an animal.

do you think this about African or other culture ?

 

size and diameter of open end?

 

1 3/4" wide at bottom open end, Approximately 15" long

 

How long is this? {just answered}

This looks to me more like some kind of horn coated over with a resin of some sort & crosshatching meant to look like Schreger lines drawn on.

 

For ivory the width is too narrow compared to length. So maybe it is made of bone.

 

Could be Loango, could be neighbouring Kongo or one of the other neighbours. These are generally called Kongo ivories, and they are ivory. The cross-hatching design is decorative/symbolic and not meant to deceive.
Historic Kongo covered parts of present-day Congo, Gabon and Angola.
@2manybooks will probably know more.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo...ephant_Tusk_Carved_with_Figures_in_Relief.jpg

 

+1
I'm not seeing Schreger lines in the blank areas nor on the figures. The spiral ascending strips seem to have vertical lines not distinct crosshatching.

 

OP's horn:




These examples found on the internet purport to be ivory. Why so different? Does it, I suppose, depend on the animal it came from?

 

The first photo you put up after OP's looks like elephant ivory as I am used to seeing it. If these long, slender, thin walled tusks are also ivory, I can only imagine they come from young elephants.

 

Crosshatching only appears in cross sections. Ivory does show lines running the long way.