Drinking Horn
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: "174,780-174,782. 174,782 - ENGRAVED. 174782 LOANED TO RENWICK 9/10/81. RETURNED 1983. DRINKING HORN, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY PROBABLY LULUWA PEOPLE; ZAIRE. AFRICAN-BUFFALO HORN, CORD 6 1/8 X 12 5/8 X 3(15.5 X 32 X 7.8) NMNH 174782. PEOPLES OF THE CONGO RIVER BASIN VALUED THE BUFFALO-HORN DRINKING VESSEL BECAUSE OF ITS ASSOCIATION WITH A POWERFUL ANIMAL AND ALSO, PERHAPS, BECAUSE OF ITS CAPACITY FOR PALM WINE. PALM-WINE EVENTS WERE OCCASIONS FOR PEACEFUL SOCIAL DISCOURSE IN ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY. IN THE UPPER KASAI REGION OF ZAIRE, THESE EVENTS TOOK ON CEREMONIAL SIGNIFICANCE IN WHICH THE QUALITY OF VESSELS USED FOR DRINKING EXPRESSED THE SOCIAL STATUS OF PARTICIPANTS. THE PRESTIGIOUSNESS AND VARIETY OF BUFFALO-HORN VESSELS ARE IMPLIED BY THE LARGE NUMBER OF SKILLFUL IMITATIONS MADE LOCALLY FROM WOOD."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 60 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
label: Culture
content: (Ba Kuba)
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: E174780-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Horn