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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Asset ID
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Title
Slit drum, Mangbetu
Description
Flat, bell-shaped drums were played in the chief's orchestra for dances, to announce when a chief was drinking palm wine or beer, and during visits from one chief to another. Lang described this drum as "an especially fine specimen much esteemed on account of the far-reaching sound. The wood is blackened in mud and extremely hard" (837).
Materials: Wood, cord, mud, copper alloy.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1910 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Musical instruments
Physical dimensions
L:67.1 W:30.6 H:8.5 (in CM)
City Town
Rungu
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Is Part Of
African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire
,
Division of Anthropology, African Ethnographic Collection
Department Catalog Number(s)
90.1/2737
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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. 210.
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