A fine Eastern Pende Panya-Gombe African mask. Coll.: David Norden
Kunstkamera Sint Petersburg
COLLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND CULTURE OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLESThe first african item was received in 1836. The last receipt is dated 1997. The collections count 12,000 items from all regions of Africa. One third of them come from Ethiopia. The majority of the collections were formed in late 19th - early 20th century by such collectors as V. V. Junker, E. Golub, A. Mansfeld, G. Meyer, L. Frobenius, D. A. Olderogge ( library gift of particular value). as well as by the doctors of the Russian Sanitary Brigade in Ethiopia (A. I. Kokhanovsky, N. Brovtsyn, and others). Recently, V. R. Arsenyev has made contributions in the collections and also U.S. Consul General Morris Hughes (see article below). African art ExhibitionArea: 261 sq. m. (856 sq. ft.)
American diplomat donates his African art collection to St. Petersburg Kunstkamera Russian museumby IRINA TITOVA 2005-04-18 An American diplomat donated his African art collection to a museum in St. Petersburg on Monday, saying that he wanted to give treasures from his days in Cameroon and Burundi to a city where he had experienced his happiest professional moments. U.S. Consul General Morris Hughes, 59, who is set to retire and
leave his post Tuesday, delivered his African collection to the city's Museum of
Anthropology and Ethnography, or Kunstkamera. The men, dressed in civilian clothes, took him to a police station and
started to question him about the pictures. In those days, when he was immediately recognizable as an American, even in a restaurant Russians would immediately leave out of fear of being persecuted. The Soviet Union gave him the impression of "a country that had a black coat on it." Now "the coat" is off and the sun is shining in, he said. Things have changed since then, though. However, he will take his entire collection of Russian souvenirs with him. Hughes said he will continue to work part-time for the State Department as an inspector for different consulates. Russia, he said, has changed from the Soviet days when "nothing was
possible - to everything is possible." |
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