Ceremonial Paddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Richard D. Mohun
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department Of State
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IDENTIFIED AS LUBA FROM ILLUSTRATION OF THE HEAD OF A SIMILAR PADDLE IN CHANDLER, STEPHANIE (TRANSLATOR). THE ARTS IN BELGIAN CONGO AND RUANDA-URUNDI (BRUSSELS, 1950), PLATE 42. ALTHOUGH IDENTIFIED ORIGINALLY ON THIS CARD AS "BAURA" (BARUA PROBABLY MEANT), LUBA AND BARUA ARE SYNONYMOUS, AND LUBA IS THE ACCEPTED NAME."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lukuga River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029024
label: USNM Number
content: E174823-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 102.9 cm