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Tags
African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire (Exhibition)
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3904
Title
Whip with ivory handle, Mangbetu, (Belgian) Congo
Description
Though Lang was a mammalogist, he became very interested in the material culture of the Belgian Congo and brought back an ethnographic collection of 4,000 objects. This ivory handled whip, collected by Lang from a colonial official at Rungu, had belonged to a Mangbetu chief.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Whips
Physical dimensions
L:82.5 W:3.8 (in CM)
City Town
Rungu
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: 3904
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/2739
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. 63.
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