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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3917
Title
Broom, Mangbetu, Medje, (Beligian) Congo
Description
Flowering grass stalks were bound together to make brooms for sweeping the inside of houses.
Materials: Plant fiber, flowers.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Brooms & brushes
,
Equipment
Physical dimensions
L:61.3 W:14.5 (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: 3917
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/1671
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. 92.
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