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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Anthropology
Asset ID
ptc-3990
Title
Horn with carving, ivory, Mangbetu people of Africa
Description
Court artists made instruments for use in the chief's orchestra. This large ivory horn, carved with a woman's figure, was made by an artist of Chief Okondo. Lang commissioned it for the American Museum of Natural History; the mouthpiece was never finished.
Materials: Ivory.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1913 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Musical instruments
Physical dimensions
L:138 W:12.6 (in CM)
City Town
Niangara
State Province
Upper Uele
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Is Part Of
African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire
,
Division of Anthropology, African Ethnographic Collection
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 3990
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4618
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Repository
American Museum of Natural History
Publication History
Schildkrout, Enid, Curtis A Keim, Curtis A Keim, American Museum of Natural History, and American Museum of Natural History. 1990. African Reflections : Art from Northeastern Zaire. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 251.
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