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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

Anthropology

Asset ID ptc-3992

Title Spoons and forks with carved designs, ivory, Mangbetu people of Africa

Description The Mangbetu held definite ideas regarding design, for themselves and for the Europeans as well. Lang wrote that these expressed "the Mangbetu idea of what a spoon and fork that a big white man would use, should look [like]. They had never seen but perfectly plain models without the slightest attempt of decoration as generally used by white men in the Congo" (3202).
Center fork collected in Medje.
Materials: Ivory.

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

Date 1914 (collected), 1990 (photographed)

Artwork/Object Type Equipment

Physical dimensions Left to right:
L:20.5 W:3.5 (in CM)
L:21.1 W:2.3 (in CM)
L:21 W:3 (in CM)
L:22.5 W:3.1 (in CM)
L:21.5 W:3 (in CM)
L:21.3 W:2.5 (in CM)
L:20 W:3 (in CM)

City Town Medje, Panga

State Province Tshopo, 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 Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 3992

Department Catalog Number(s) 90.1/2295, 90.1/3415, 90.1/3891, 90.1/4885, 90.1/4886, 90.1/4887, 90.1/4888

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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. 252.

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