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Tags
Anthropology
Asset ID
ptc-3989
Title
Wooden headrest box with carved figures, Zande (Azande) people of Africa
Description
Headrests of this type were also used as boxes to store personal articles. This Zande box has the additional feature of carved heads placed on the basic box/headrest form.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
)
Date
1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Containers
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: 3989
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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. 248.
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