The sketchbooks of the explorers
Title:
The sketchbooks of the explorers
Producer:
Charles Callewaert (°1855 - †1945)
Theme:
object, military life and conflicts
Legend:
Charles Callewaert and his contemporaries of the CEHC also drew several aspects of local cultures such as these knives of the Upper Congo. Similar knives are found in the ethnographic collection brought back by Henry Morton Stanley and in the ethnographic collection of the RMCA. Multidisciplinary expertise enables the RMCA to examine the material culture of the DRC, history or cultural anthropology as seen by Europeans or Africans.
Inscription:
Couteaux de Bangala & Bayanzi
Date of acquisition:
1989
Dimensions:
19 cm x 29 cm
Technique:
graphic arts > mixed technique > pencil - aquarelle
Inventory number:
HO.0.1.3109