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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Asset ID ptc-3921

Title Basket, plant fiber, H 7.8 in, Mangbetu people of the Congo, Africa

Description Baskets like this one held cooked foods such as bananas, vegetables, meat, and fish. Before food was placed in the basket, it was lined with banana leaves that had been held over a fire to give them a papery consistency. Lang called this lining, "Mangbetu-paper." Chiefs' wives cooked food and delivered it to the royal court in baskets prepared this way.
Materials: Plant fiber, wood.

Agent (Role) Gardiner, Lynton (Photographer), Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 (Collector)

Date 1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Baskets, Containers

Physical dimensions L:25 W:23 H:20 (in CM)

City Town Niangara

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: 3921

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/ 4491

Rights statement Information on rights available at the repository.

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. 108.

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