Quiver

29-94-74

From: Zaire

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-94-74
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Zaire
Section African
Materials Leather | Wood | Fiber
Description

With arrows 29-94-75 to 103 inc. Made from an oblong piece of rawhide, the long edges caught between two pieces of palm-leaf midrib, fastened together with split cane loops; the lower short edge is fastened to a basketwork base. For the type, cf. Frobenius and v. Wilm, Atlas Africanun VI, B1. 36, Fig. 234 (Bateke). As to other quivers and arrows of this general type, cf. Torday and Joyce, Notes ethnograpiques sur des populations du Kasai et du Kwango oriental, in Annales du Musee du Congo Belge II, fasc. 2, pp. 39-40 (Basonge); p. 147 (Batateta); pp. 181-2 (Bankutu); p. 351 (Upper Kwango to Kasai Rivers). Bateke in Atlas Africanus, loc. cit., is probably intended for Bakete (Kasai).

Length 69 cm
Width 14 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929
Other Number 1428 - Other Number | 90.0 - 5558 - Other Number

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