The initial design for a new sculpture, inspired by an engraved walrus tusk, has been revealed as the centrepiece to a redeveloped museum. Entitled Abeona, the suspended artwork will span three ...

National Museum of African Art, SI Tusk detail ... After the Portuguese arrived in the region toward the end of the 1400s, ivory tusks began to be exported, eventually for use in products such ...

Nigeria’s minister of state for the environment unveiled an elephant-shaped sculpture made with confiscated ivory on in late ... 2.5-tonne haul of seized tusks destroyed by the authorities ...