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Tags
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)
Mangbetu
Asset ID
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Title
Horn
Description
This very large, impressive horn belonged to a Mangbetu chief. Charms inside the horn gave it special power to confound enemies when sounded in battle. Lang was told that this one had a piece of skin from a white man sewn below the hide covering (3677).
Materials: Ivory, fur, hide, hair, pitch, wood, cord.
Agent (Role)
Gardiner, Lynton
(
Photographer
),
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957
(
Collector
)
Date
1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Musical instruments
Physical dimensions
L:238 W:29.2 (in CM)
City Town
Panga
State Province
Tshopo
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)
90.1/5007
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. 188-89.
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