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31-21-9

From: Zaire | Ituri Forest

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 31-21-9
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pygmy | Mbuti
Provenience Zaire | Ituri Forest
Section African
Materials Skin | Wood
Description

Simple, with rattan string. Covered with skin of tails (2) of monkeys(?). See Schmidt, Die Stellung der Pygmaenvolker, p. 83 and pl. II, fig. 4.

Length 82 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Charles Wellington Furlong, 1931
Other Number 57 - Other Number

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