For #TwoForTuesday on #WorldCrocDay :
Mancala Boards, early 20th c.
1. Ijaw culture, Nigeria
Wood, H15.2 x L100 x W16 cm
2015-22-34
2. Baule culture, Ivory Coast
Wood, H19.5 x L110 x W18.6 cm
2015-22-35
Penn Museum:
https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/506874
https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/506875
#AfricanArt

#WorldCrocDay; am I doing this right? 😆

#WorldCrocDay :
Gold #Crocodile Pendant
Coclé culture, Panama, c. 500-1300 CE
On display at Dumbarton Oaks (PC.B.571)
#IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

#WorldCrocDay :
British Library Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang (MSS Jav 24)
“In Javanese language and script. Written in the court of the Sultan [Hamengkubuwana II] of Yogyakarta (Kanjeng Sultan ing Ngayogya) on 22 Rejeb A.J.1730 (7 Nov. 1803).”
“the #crocodile …may suggest the name of the king of Pringgabaya…as ‘baya’ points to a crocodile”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serat_Jaya_Lengkara_Wulang_(page_208_crop).jpg

🪷 #WorldCrocodileDay 🐊 17 June is World Croc Day. This imposing #crocodile hide armor comprising a helmet and cuirass (body armour) was worn in rites of the Egyptian crocodile god #Sobek in the 3rd Century AD. Now at British Museum. #CrocDay #WorldCrocDay #CrocodileDay 🐊 🪷

🪷 #WorldCrocodileDay 🐊 June 17th is World Croc Day. Archaeologists have found a crocodile buried under an Antinoopolis temple ... so that crocodile god Sobek guards Antinous for all eternity! Full report here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/ancient-crocodile-skeleton-found-under.html #CrocDay #WorldCrocDay #CrocodileDay 🐊 🪷

🪷🐊 17 June is World Croc Day! No one knows how #Antinous died in the Nile in October 130 AD. Was a crocodile the last thing he saw? Did a crocodile devour and thus help deify #Antinoos? Crocodile statue with Farnese Antinous at Canopus, Hadrian's Villa. Photo: #AndréDurand #CrocDay #WorldCrocDay #CrocodileDay #WorldCrocodileDay 🪷