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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Field photographs
Mayogo (African people)
Tattooing
Asset ID
112165
Title
Mayogo woman wearing hat
Description
This woman was a principal wife of the Mayogo chief Abiembali; her elaborate headdress denotes her rank. She wears an undercap made from hundreds of dogs' teeth, a basketry hat topped with red tail feathers of the gray parrot, an ivory hairpin, and a hairpin made from a monkey bone.
Agent (Role)
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
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Photographer
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Date
1909, 1914 (photographed)
City Town
Medje
State Province
Upper Uele
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Is Part Of
African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Negative Collection, 5 x 7: 112165
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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. 90.
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