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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Field photographs
Mangbetu
Pottery
Asset ID
111926
Title
Mangbetu women working inside large shelter
Description
Woman seated on stool in interior space showing several vessels and row of brush objects crafted of plant fiber. | The women brew beer from finger millet (eleusine) grown in the savanna. Note the stools, carved house posts, large wooden dish, and slit drum inside this cooking shelter.
Agent (Role)
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
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Photographer
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Date
1909, 1910 (photographed)
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: 111926
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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. 78.
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