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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3919
Title
Basket, Mangbetu, Medje, (Belgian) Congo
Description
Mangbetu women could own property, including baskets like this one and the objects kept inside. Lang described such baskets as "made by women, used generally only for objects of women, such as adornments, strings, necklaces, armlets, leglets, objects of medicine or real remedies, also the smaller knives, the bandages used to bind their own and the heads of children."
Materials: Plant fiber, wood, twine.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Baskets
,
Containers
Physical dimensions
L:15 W:13 H:30.5 (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: 3919
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/1571
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. 100.
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