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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Asset ID ptc-3940

Title Pins, iron, Mangbetu people of Africa

Description These iron pins, for the hair or hat, display a variety of designs, from the classic disk often seen on ivory hairpins to irregularly shaped circles, stars, points, and cutouts.
Materials: Metal (iron).

Left to right:
Poko, 1913
Medje, 1910
Niangara, 1910
Poko, 1913
Niangara, 1913
Akenge's Village, 1913

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

Date 1910 (collected), 1913 (collected), 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Accessories (Clothing & dress), Hair ornaments

Physical dimensions Left to right:
L:33.7 W:4.5 (in CM)
L:35.4 W:7.9 (in CM)
L:28.7 W:3.8 (in CM)
L:36.3 W:8.5 (in CM)
L:22.2 W:4.3 (in CM)
L:28 W:11.5 (in CM)

City Town Medje, Niangara, Poko

State Province Lower Uele, 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: 3940

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/1989, 90.1/2656, 90.1/3724, 90.1/3725, 90.1/4240, 90.1/4242

Other Number 3940

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. 131.

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