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Mendhi hands by Pushpa Jain. Photographer unknown. All rights reserved.Fish decoy. Photo by Pearl Yee Wong. All rights reserved.Embroidered dress detail. Photo by Pearl Yee Wong. All rights reserved.Cedar bird by Glen VanAntwerp. Photo by Al Kamuda. All rights reserved.
The Cernyw and Morna Kline Collection of African Material Culture

Between 1967 and 1969, Cernyw Kline, as a doctoral student in agricultural engineering, participated in a USAID project that involved conduction research in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Gambia. With his wife Morna, he collected a number of pieces including a significant collection of Christian art made in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They donated the collection to the MSU Museum in 1972.

Collectors/Fieldworkers:
Cernyw and Morna Kline

Related Collections:
Ethiopian Material Culture Collection
Joseph Druse Collection of Nigerian Material Culture

Exhibitions:
"African Connections: Perspectives on Collecting Culture," Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, Jan. 31, 1999 - Sept. 5, 1999. [see Raymond Silverman, http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Virtual/AfCon/ (28 March 1999) for more information on collectors of African material for MSU Museum]

"Expressions of Africa: Selections from the Museum Collections of Michigan State University," Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, September 19-December 15, 1989.

Raymond A. Silverman. "African Connections Perspectives on Collecting Culture," [virtual exhibition] http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Virtual/AfCon/ (Jan. 6, 2003)


--compiled by Raymond Silverman, 2005.


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