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Tags
Akenge
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Zande
Asset ID
ptc-3898
Title
Brass studded wooden stool, Mangbetu or Azande, Akenge, (Belgian) Congo
Description
This studded stool belonged to a wife of Chief Akenge of the Azande. Because of its decoration, Lang considered it the best example he had seen.
Materials: Wood, brass.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Furniture
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: 3898
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/3334
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. 38.
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