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Eduoard Remenyi’s African Ethnographic Collection The very first accession processed by the Department of Anthropology at The Field Columbian Museum in 1893 included a group of African objects collected by Edouard Remenyi in Africa between 1887 and 1890. This ethnographic collection includes Bantu musical instruments, wooden Barotse figurines, Basuto garments, Bushman/Bantu arrows,  quivers, and digging sticks, Mfengu and Ndebele clothing, Nguni jewelry, and Zulu material culture ranging from beerpots to belts, snuff containers to spears. All totaled, there are nearly 200 beaded objects, weapons, pottery, baskets, ostrich egg shell containers, carved utilitarian objects and a group of fine snuff containers used in  important ritual and social ceremonies in this collection.back to Highlights |
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