IDNO

P.7186.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Hairdressing.

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; northern Congo; Yakusu

Cultural Affliation

Yakusu

Named Person

Photographer

Sutton Smith, Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Date

circa 1905 - 1911

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collectionvon Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Sutton Smith, H., 1911?. Yakusu, the very heart of Africa: being some account of the Protestant mission at Stanley Falls, Upper Congo. (Marshall Brothers Ltd., London), opposite p.18, and captioned:
"A Yakusu woman busy with her razor, earning the 'barber's shoka'.
Photo by the Author." [Full text available at archive.org/.../yakusuveryhearto00smit/yakusuveryhearto00smit_djvu.txt, JD 21/2/2014]