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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Mangbetu
Asset ID
ptc-3966
Title
Necklace, charm
Description
The four wooden cylinders of this necklace were charms used to procure wealth. The necklace was owned by Matubani, a wife of Chief Okondo and daughter of a chief. The charms' magical properties derived from the wood from which they were made. This wood had been given to Matubani by her father. Lang claimed that inheritance of any kind was unusual and that when a chief died, all of his possessions were supposed to be destroyed.
Materials: Wood, metal, plant fiber, leather, coating.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Accessories (Clothing & dress)
,
Talismans
Physical dimensions
L:14 W:11 (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
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4175
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. 184.
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