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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3947
Title
Knife, iron and wood, Mangbetu people of Africa
Description
Mangbetu artists often combined their skills to produce objects such as this prestigious show knife. From Lang's fieldnotes we know that Chief Okondo's blacksmith made the blade and another man carved the anthropomorphic handle.
Materials: Metal (iron), wood, coating, stain.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Knives
Physical dimensions
L:41 W:22 (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: 3947
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4140
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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. 136.
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