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The Smithsonian
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Cincinnati was not the
only museum to benefit from Steckelmann’s activities. In 1891, Otis
Mason, the Smithsonian National Museum’s first curator of anthropology,
accepted into the Smithsonian collections thirty-eight specimens transferred
from the Cincinnati Museum Association’s Steckelmann holdings. The
exchange added to the National Museum’s small collection of central
African material and drew from areas of the Cincinnati collection that Steckelmann
had acquired in multiples, such as a range of fiber cloths, mats and baskets,
farming tools, and weapons. The National Museum later acquired additional
objects supplied by Steckelmann upon his return to the Congo region in the
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