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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3929
Title
Mat, plant fiber, Makere of Africa
Description
Lang wrote, "Woven mats (zappo) are used upon their beds, two or more are laid upon their beds, right over the nicely arranged banana leaves that are carefully laid over the longitudinal five or six logs of which their beds consist. The women very often sit upon them in front of the door as they are laid out on the elevated platform."
Materials: Plant fibers.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Furnishings
Physical dimensions
L:83 W:63 (in CM)
City Town
Niapu
State Province
Lower 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: 3929
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/2469
Rights statement
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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. 116.
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