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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3889
Title
Knife with figure handle, Mangbetu, Africa
Description
Iron, wood. This dagger represents the earliest style of anthropomorphic carving found among the Mangbetu. The carving illustrates the fashionable Mangebetu style at the turn of the century, including the elongated head and the back apron, or negbe, worn by women. Similar daggers, carried in a sheath and worn tucked under a man's belt, were made throughout northeastern Zaire. Their wooden or ivory handles were often carved in simple geometric forms, but around 1900, carvers increasingly embellished everyday objects (including knives, boxes and other containers, and musical instruments) with human figures. This fine example shows a typical Mangbetu pose, one arm in front and the other in back resting on the apron. Herbert Lang collected it from Chief Zebuandra in 1910, during the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition. Material: Wood, Metal (Iron).
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1915 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Knives
Physical dimensions
L:30 W:5 H:5 (in CM)
City Town
Medje
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: 3889
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/ 2082
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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, Back cover.
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