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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Anthropology
Ethnography
Asset ID
228396
Title
Engraving in ivory
Description
Two people announcing the arrival of a chief, one with a horn, the other beating on an iron bell, incised on an ivory horn.
Agent (Role)
Kirschner, Julius
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1917 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Engravings
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 Negative Collection, 4 x 5: 228396
External Resource
AMNH Library authority record:
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
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. 195.
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