Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum
The African collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, holds objects of everyday life from the Bambuti people from the Ituri forest, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The items were collected by the anthropologist Paul Joachim Schebes...
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The African collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, holds objects of everyday life from the Bambuti people from the Ituri forest, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The items were collected by the anthropologist Paul Joachim Schebesta, possibly during his expeditions around 1930. The objects containing wood were selected for wood identification by using microscopic wood identification, with the help of the InsideWood database and reference samples from the xylarium of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. The investigated musical instrument, a wooden zither, was made of wood of Musanga cecropioides, the handle of the shield of Alstonia sp., the dagger and sheath of Autranella congolensis or another high density species of Sapotaceae, and the crossbow of Nauclea diderichii (bow) and Xylopia sp. (stock). Wood identification helped us to gain additional information on the origin, knowledge of wood, and time of the collection of objects in the Congo.
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| spelling | doaj-art-04759195d47c47298ab46879a8b1010a2025-02-06T15:19:24ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Les0024-10672590-99322022-12-0171210.26614/les-wood.2022.v71n02a04Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museumKatarina Čufar0Hans Beeckman1Marko Frelih2Luka Krže3Wannes Hubau 4Maks Merela5University of LjubljanaRoyal Museum for Central Africa, Laboratory for Wood Biology, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B-3080 Tervuren, BelgiumSlovene Ethnographic Museum, Metelkova ulica 2, 1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana4Ghent University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 GentUniversity of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana The African collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, holds objects of everyday life from the Bambuti people from the Ituri forest, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The items were collected by the anthropologist Paul Joachim Schebesta, possibly during his expeditions around 1930. The objects containing wood were selected for wood identification by using microscopic wood identification, with the help of the InsideWood database and reference samples from the xylarium of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. The investigated musical instrument, a wooden zither, was made of wood of Musanga cecropioides, the handle of the shield of Alstonia sp., the dagger and sheath of Autranella congolensis or another high density species of Sapotaceae, and the crossbow of Nauclea diderichii (bow) and Xylopia sp. (stock). Wood identification helped us to gain additional information on the origin, knowledge of wood, and time of the collection of objects in the Congo. https://journals.uni-lj.si/les-wood/article/view/11727museum objectswood identificationMusanga cecropioidesAlstonia sp.Autranella congolensisNauclea diderichi |
| spellingShingle | Katarina Čufar Hans Beeckman Marko Frelih Luka Krže Wannes Hubau Maks Merela Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum Les museum objects wood identification Musanga cecropioides Alstonia sp. Autranella congolensis Nauclea diderichi |
| title | Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum |
| title_full | Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum |
| title_fullStr | Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum |
| title_short | Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum |
| title_sort | wood identification in objects of bambuti people from the congo in the collection of the slovene ethnographic museum |
| topic | museum objects wood identification Musanga cecropioides Alstonia sp. Autranella congolensis Nauclea diderichi |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/les-wood/article/view/11727 |
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