Another Afro-Portuguese ivory has surfaced, following Ezio Bassani's catalogue raison of 1988. This one, an oliphant from Sierra Leone, was "rediscovered" in the British Museum's Department of ...
The Afro-Portuguese ivories--comprised of ornately carved ivory containers for salt (called salt cellars), hunting horns (called oliphants), forks, spoons, and liturgical vessels--were commissioned ...