A RARE LEGA BONE CROCODILE, kimena, of flat form with slightly domed head and back, two sets of engraved circular eyes on the truncated triangular head, the remainder scored all over in diagonal bands, creamy to reddish patina

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A RARE LEGA BONE CROCODILE, kimena, of flat form with slightly domed head and back, two sets of engraved circular eyes on the truncated triangular head, the remainder scored all over in diagonal bands, creamy to reddish patina
21.3cm. long

Lot Essay

Biebuyck (1973, Pl.90) illustrates a crocodile in ivory he collected in 1952 from Kyelu, a lutumbo lwa kindi member of the Banagabo clan, Bakisi sector, Shabunda territory, which he writes is interpreted by the aphorism who does not stop arguing will quarrel with what has the mouth widely distended

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