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Anthropology
Hall of African Ethnology
Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909
Asset ID
32926
Title
Hall of African Peoples, 1910
Description
In 1907 King Leopold II gave the American Museum of Natural History a gift of about 3,500 objects collected in the Congo Free State. Many of these artifacts were exhibited alongside zoological trophies in the museum's African Hall, which opened to the public in 1910.
Agent (Role)
Kirschner, Julius
(
Photographer
)
Date
1910-09
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Is Part Of
African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire
,
Historic Halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Negative Collection, 8 x 10: 32926
External Resource
AMNH Library authority record:
Hall of African Ethnology
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. 50.
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