Contributing Institution: Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston / Date: 1951 / Subject (Topic): Art objects--Africa and Mangbetu (African people) - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

Start Over Contributing Institution Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston ✖ Date 1951 ✖ Subject (Topic) Art objects--Africa ✖ Subject (Topic) Mangbetu (African people) ✖

1. Ivory ornamental head

Ivory ornamental head

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Ivory stylized Mangbetu head, poised upwards; origin Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

2. Ivory shoehorn

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Ivory replica of a European shoehorn; profile of a woman with sculptured hair, black holes for eyes; torso resembles woman wearing a dress in the shape of a shoehorn; origin Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).