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Asset ID ptc-3982

Title Club (detail), Azande

Description This club was collected in the Sudan and cataloged as coming from the Dinka, northern neighbors of the Azande, among whom it was probably collected. Stylistically similar to Zande figures, it may have been made by a Zande carver.

Agent (Role) Gardiner, Lynton (Photographer)

Date 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Weapons

Physical dimensions L:68.5 W:6 (in CM)

Country Sudan

Is Part Of African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire, Division of Anthropology, African Ethnographic Collection

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/5764

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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. 230.

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