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The mining industry in Congo is still notorious for its devastating environmental impact and its human rights abuses.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tColonialism in Congo, and elsewhere in Africa, relied on American investment. In 1919, Princeton University graduate Donald B. Doyle moved to the Kasai region of Belgian Congo to manage the Tshikapa Diamond Mines for Forminière, a mining company founded in 1906 with the funds of American industrialists. While stationed there, Joyce Doyle, Donald’s wife, amassed 150 objects, which she later donated to this Museum in memory of her husband. Her collection included this intricately carved square cosmetic box and base of a headrest consisting of two seated figures decorated with imported brass furniture tacks distinctive to Chokwe art. Joyce’s collecting depended upon the operations of the Tshikapa mines, and she urged prospectors traveling to the field to “bring me things that the Africans made and had used,” as she wrote in a statement sent to the Museum in 1976.\n</p>","remarks":"AFR_31_WLA.pdf - Day 1 installation - Group chat for y1953-147 and y1953-149 a-b"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>Acquired by Joyce K. Doyle in or near Tshikapa, Kasai region or Kinshasa, present-day Democratic Republic of Congo (former Belgian Congo), between 1919 and 1923; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 1947.</p>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1800,"sortnumber":"1953  147y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:00:35.291126","objectid":24004,"dimensions":"13 × 16.3 × 7.4 cm (5 1/8 × 6 7/16 × 2 15/16 in.)","on_view":true}