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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Congo Collections
Division of Anthropology
Mangbetu
Asset ID
ptc-3950
Title
Apron, banana leaves and plant fiber, Mangbetu people of Africa
Description
Women wore a rectangular apron of barkcloth in front and a negbe such as this one to cover their buttocks. Egbe (pl.) were made from banana leaves, sewn into shape, and decorated with appliqued patterns of blackened banana leaves, usually geometric but sometimes figurative. At the time of Lang's visit, when women no longer always wore traditional dress, he noted that only two women living in Okondo's villages still knew how to make egbe. Yet women still enjoyed wearing them; "the women create the most astonishing variety of patterns and each woman changes the pattern continually" (1008).
Materials: Plant fiber, leaves, cord, dye.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Aprons
Physical dimensions
L:30 W:20 H:7 (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: 3950
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4356
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. 141.
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