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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Anthropology

Ethnography

Asset ID 338157

Title Hat, plant fiber and feathers, Mangbetu people of Africa

Description Mangbetu hats combine basketry with feathers in various ways. Here, the basic hat form is embellished with fiber loops and feathers. Hats were generally worn by men. Czekanowski, working in the region at the same time as Lang, noted that a woman wearing a hat was considered "provocative" (1924, 135). Today, however, older women sometimes wear basketry hats during traditional dances.
Materials: Cane, bark cloth, plant fiber, leather, cord.

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

Date 1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Hats

Physical dimensions L:25 W:25 H:20 (in CM)

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 Negative Collection, 8 x 10: 338157

External Resource AMNH Library authority record: American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/4012

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. 128.

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