In 2010, seventeen authors collaborated on this web dossier, each contributing their specific expertise to highlight the remarkable diversity of the collections within the Department of Anthropology and History at the RMCA. The dossier was created as part of a complete overhaul of the museum’s website. Due to the significant interest it garnered, these concise presentations have been retained in subsequent versions of the website. Each contribution focuses on a specific collection, with notes on its significance and interpretation, complemented by a limited selection of items with brief commentary. The texts were compiled in 2010 by Hein Vanhee, then Head of Collection Management, with translation and final editing led by Isabelle Gérard. This web dossier provides a lasting insight into the richness and diversity of the collections.
Photographs of the expedition of Charles Lemaire (1898-1900)
The objects of the mukanda initiation
The photos of Herzekiah-Andrew Shanu
Drums from Sub-Saharan Africa
The work of the painter Léon Dardenne
The collection of photographs of Henry Morton Stanley
The collection of ancient maps
The ‘functional’ art of the Omo valley herdsmen
The archaeological excavations of Sanga
Photographs of the expedition of Armand Hutereau
Town and architecture in Congo, 1885-1940
The proverb pot lids of Lower Congo
Stone grave statues from Lower Congo
Persona. Masks of Africa
The Henry Morton Stanley collection of memorabilia
Reality and fiction in ethnographic photography of the 1950s
The urban photography of Joseph Makula
The sketchbooks of the explorers
The actors of Congolese independence
Ovimbundu sculpture
The ethnographic field photographs of Auguste Bal
Looking for traditional music in Congo and in Rwanda in the 1970s
Henry Rosy and the initiation of gaza wuli
Armand Hutereau as an ethnomusicologist
The sculptures of Jane Tercafs (1898-1944)
Henry Morton Stanley’s lantern slides
Chokwe combs