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African ethnography collections of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum in the Anthropological Museum of MSU

Balakhonova E.I.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Balakhonova Ekaterina I., Ph.D., e-mail: balakhonova@gmail.com

Abstract

The history of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum’s ethnography collections and their African part are discussed in the article for the first time in the Russian scientific literature. In 1939 the Anthropological Museum of MSU received a large group of ethnographic collections from the Museum of Nations of the USSR, among which were 21 collections of items from Africa. The most interesting collections to be named are: the collections from individual gatherers: V.F. Mashkov, Y.I. Chabrov, Carlo Guarmani and money equivalents that were used in various regions of Africa at the end of XIX century. The Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum opened in Moscow in 1862 and was based on the collections of count N.P. Ru¬myantsev, removed from St. Petersburg. The Museum of Nations of the USSR had got its name in 1930 after the renaming of the Central Museum of Ethnology. The latter was organized as a result of merging the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum’s ethnography collections and materials of the 1923 All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.

Keywords

anthropology museums, history, ethnography, african ethnographic collections

Цит.: Balakhonova E.I. African ethnography collections of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum in the Anthropological Museum of MSU // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2009; 1/2009; с. 17-26