Elephant Prod (?)
early 1900s
- Medium
- Wood, wire, upholstery studs, and metal
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Africa, Central Africa, Angola, unknown maker
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, African Art
- Credit line
- Educational Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In the early twentieth century, museums often collected objects from Africa for their ethnographic––not artistic––value, which is why this tool is in the CMA's collection.
