Painting on Canvas
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jul 2008
label: Collection Date
content: Mid-1970's
name: label: Collector
content: Ambassador Edward Marks
label: Donor Name
content: Ambassador Edward Marks
notes: label: Notes
content: "La Mort des Innocents", oil on canvas. According to curator Mary Jo Arnoldi, the painting shows a time after Lumumba's death when there was a lot of fighting and women with their children were fleeing; Tshibumba recalls how women sometimes had to throw their children in the river in order to escape.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2046107
label: USNM Number
content: E432578-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 52.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 45.2 cm