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American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)

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Asset ID 111892

Title Community leader on elevated chair with group in front of village

Description In an image of court display, Chief Okondo is carried on a litter surrounded by two of his wives and several male attendants. The shields, the large slit drum carried by two men, and the horn are part of Chief Okondo's regalia. An attendant carries a mirror for the ruler to view himself and the procession.

Agent (Role) Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 (Photographer)

Date 1909, 1910 (photographed)

Country Democratic Republic of the Congo

Is Part Of African reflections : art from northeastern Zaire

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Negative Collection, 5 x 7: 111892

External Resource AMNH Library archives records: American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915), AMNH Library authority record: American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915), AMNH Library authority record: Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964, AMNH Library authority record: Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957

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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. 163.

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