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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3925
Title
Basket, wood, plant fiber, and hide with fur, 14 inches (height), Mangbetu people of Africa
Description
Made for women to store their personal belongings, baskets of this type could be hung up in the house on a pole.
Materials: Plant fiber, hide, cord, wood.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1913 (collector), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Baskets
,
Containers
Physical dimensions
L:34.5 W:26 H:36 (in CM)
City Town
Niangara
State Province
Upper Uele
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: 3925
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4492
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. 113.
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