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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Congo Collections

Division of Anthropology

Mangbetu

Asset ID ptc-3954

Title Whisk, ivory and elephant hair, Mangbetu people of Africa

Description Fly whisks formed part of court regalia. Lang wrote that the whisk was a sort of scepter of the chiefs in common use with the Mangbetu and all the neighboring tribes, generally worn in the right hand [and] used as a flywhip. The wearer enjoys evidently a certain distinction as it is the privilege of chiefs and other important men to carry one of these fiber bundles" (375). This fly whisk was carved by a Mangbetu but used by the Zande chief Akenge.
Materials: Ivory, hair (elephant), cord.

Agent (Role) Gardiner, Lynton (Photographer), Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 (Collector)

Date 1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Accessories (Clothing & dress), Equipment

Physical dimensions L:80 W:18.1 (in CM)

City Town Panga

State Province Tshopo

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: 3954

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/5006

Rights Statement Information on rights available at the repository.

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. 153.

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