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Digital Collections: African Art Exhibition of 1923




Item No. 450     Expedition Report    7/4/1920

Stewart Culin, Brooklyn Museum

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Abstract: Report on a Collecting Trip in England, France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Servia, Roumania, & Sweden, 6-11/1920, pp. 9-10, describing Culin's visit to W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London. He details the house at 77 Brixton Hill, crammed full of ethnological specimens. He relates an anecdote about Oldman's narrow escape from bombing during the war and his dealings with Germans before the onset of war. He describes a variety of objects selected, among which were African, including a Dervish cap from Lord Kitchener's collection, an embroidered girdle from Nigeria, three highly embroidered cotton robes from Guinea and a number of specimens of Bushongo palm cloth, and specimens from other cultures.

Source: Archives: Culin Archival Collection
Location: S01_02_01_023