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The Ethnology Collections of the Redpath Museum include close to 17,000 archaeological and ethnological artifacts. Their geographic scope is global, with the exception of material relating to Canada's First Nations, now part of the McCord Museum. The Redpath holdings are an important national resource and in many cases represent some of the earliest ethnological materials held by North American museums. Archaeological and ethnological artifacts were part of Sir William Dawson's original collection at the Museum, although subordinate in number and emphasis to the natural history holdings. Additional material came to the Redpath from the Natural History Society of Montreal (1827-1926) and McGill's Ethnological Museum (see Lawson 1994, 1999). Redpath Museum African Art
Most of the African material is from central Africa (Angola and Congo) and was collected circa the end of the nineteenth century. It includes ancestral and spirit figures carved in wood; basketry, beadwork and personal ornaments, blacksmithing tools, carved stools and chairs, ceremonial staffs, masks, musical instruments, pottery and household artifacts, shields and weapons, textiles (approximately 2500 objects).
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Redpath Museum, one of Canada's oldest free-standing museums, functions as a
unique interdisciplinary unit within the Faculty of Science. As a Museum it
preserves and displays large collections of ancient and modern organisms,
minerals, and ethnological artefacts. As an academic unit it serves as a centre
for the teaching and writing of science, as well as a research centre for the
history of life and biodiversity of the planet.
Among
the extensive collections of artifacts from Africa, Oceania and South America
are these African ceremonial knives. Many were made by Kuba artisans from the
Congo region out of locally smelted iron.
Male
figure with bowl from the Congo collected by McGill professor J.L. Todd, BA1898,
MDCM1900, while on one of the first medical expeditions investigating sleeping
sickness in central Africa. The background photo is from ethnographer Emil
Torday's1925 book, On the Trail of the Bushongo.
Kongo
figure from Angola, made of wood, metal, glass, bone and cloth. Originally
donated to the Natural History Society of Montreal in about 1860, it came to the
Redpath Museum when the society disbanded in 1925. Figures of this kind were
considered to be very powerful and were kept in the community to protect its
members.