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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
ptc-3949
Title
Barkcloth, plant fiber, Mangbetu people of Africa
Description
The variety of patterns on women's barkcloth resembled that on body-painting. Most designs were free-flowing and nonrepresentational, although Lang collected some pieces with paintings of human beings and elephants.
Materials: Barkcloth, pigment.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collector), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Accessories (Clothing & dress)
,
Textiles
Physical dimensions
L:71 W:19 (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: 3949
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/4476 K
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. 139.
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