clog;
sandal
- Museum number
- Af1908,0622.60.a-b
- Description
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Man's clog (with toe-peg, one of a pair), sandal made of wood,nails (brass), nails (iron).
- Production date
- 1900-1908 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres (a)
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Height: 9 centimetres (b)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (a)
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Width: 9.70 centimetres (a)
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Width: 10 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 25 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 5), 'Introduction to the Collections'
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Acquisition notes
- Af1908,0622.1 to 177 were purchased from the artist Norman Hardy, who accompanied Emil Torday on his expedition on behalf of the Museum to the Congo in 1907-9. They were brought to London by Hardy when he returned to England in April 1908. The collection includes objects collected between December 1907 and April 1908 in Batempa and Mokunji at the southern end of the Sankuru river; at the market in Lusambo downstream along the Sankuru river; and at the village of Misumba (inland from Isaka). The works come mostly from the Batetela, Songye, Bushongo, Batwa, Bangongo and Bangendi peoples.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1908,0622.60.a-b