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Ethnographic Selection of Kongo Artifacts and a Colonial Map

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  • Selection of Authentic Kongo Knives
    Located in Leuven , BE
    The knives were handmade with heavily decorated Forged Iron blades with embellished wooden handles. They would use brass or leather wrappings and tacks that turned their weapons into...
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    Vintage 1930s Congolese Antiquities

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    Metal

  • Ethno Design Selection of 7 Cache-Sexe Made of Palm Leaf, Mangbetu People, DRC
    Located in Leuven , BE
    Back aprons (negbe, pl. egbe) such as these were particularly popular among upper-class Mangbetu women at the turn of the 20th century. This distinctive kidney-shaped ornament pad wa...
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    Vintage 1930s Congolese Natural Specimens

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  • Ethno Design early 20th Century, Drc, Selection of Three Bark Cloth Beaters
    Located in Leuven , BE
    Three old and well used bark cloth beater made out of a wooden shaft with a cross-hatched blackened tip which is lashed into position by a strip of cane. These grooved wooden beater were tools used to pound and soften tree bark, for the processing of bark cloth used as clothing. This tool has many different variations that are seen in indigenous cultures worldwide, yet all for a similar purpose. They vary in size, shapes, and materials. They are carved with parallel striations. Some bark beaters...
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    Early 20th Century Congolese Natural Specimens

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    Wood

  • Selection of Three Yaka/Suku Monocyclic Ceremonial Drinking Cups, DRC
    Located in Leuven , BE
    Yaka community leaders have a number of items that form part of their royal collection. One of these items is the kopa ceremonial cup (also called koopa...
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    Early 20th Century Congolese Antiquities

    Materials

    Wood

  • Frontal of Kouri Beef 'Bos taurus belensis'
    Located in Leuven , BE
    Beef from Lake Chad, native to the banks and islands of this lake, is generally called Kouri. Unlike the Zebus, it does not have a hump and its coat is white. Its horns show great va...
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    Late 20th Century Chadian Tribal Art

    Materials

    Bone

  • Bas Congo Sword, Private collection of Bruno Conti 'Brussels'
    Located in Leuven , BE
    Bas Congo Sword / Scepter 19th C. Collection Bruno Conti (Bruno Conti, Brussels, 1974-2003).
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    Antique 19th Century Tribal Art

    Materials

    Metal

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