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Akeley Hall of African Mammals
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Mammalogy
Okapi (Diorama)
Asset ID
315691
Title
Okapi Group, Hall of African Mammals, June, 1938
Description
The American Museum's Congo Expedition resulted partly from the museum's desire to study the okapi, an animal that had been discovered by Europeans in 1902. Lang returned with several okapi specimens as well as detailed examples of the flora in their habitat. The okapi were mounted and casts made of the trees and leaves to create this diorama that is still on exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History's Akeley hall of African mammals.
Agent (Role)
Coles, Charles H.
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1938-06
Artwork/Object Type
Dioramas
City Town
New York
State Province
New York
Country
United States
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: 315691
External Resource
AMNH Library authority record:
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Alternate Versions
1709
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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. 54.
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