IDNO

P.7201.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Woman with distended lip for ornament. N. Congo. Basoko.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.139219.TC1: Tanganyika. (?) 47. T. 48,49.
? Makonde
2 views of woman, w. distorted lips.

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; northern Congo [?Tanganyika]

Cultural Affliation

Lokele

Named Person

Photographer

?Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

?Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Date

circa 1895 - 1914

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collectionvon Hugel Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: A cut-out of a similar image of the same woman in LS.140219.TC1 and related text are published in Smith, K., 1920. Congoland: A Book for Young People (Carey Press, London) p.50, and captioned:
"The Decorations of her Tribe."
In the Author's Note, p.ix, Smith makes the acknowledgement:
"While most of the photographs have been taken with my own little camera, I am indebted for others to the kindness of several of my fellow missionaries in Congoland."
[Full text available at https://archive.org/details/congolandbookfor00smit, JD 21/2/2014]

Place: It is possible that this photograph was taken in the verandah of the Baptist Mission House at Yakusu. See photographs of the brick built Mission 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.84, and captioned:
"A Christmas Feast, 1909.
Photo by the Author."
And opposite p.124, and captioned:
"Our ' Home''. Mrs Sutton Smith on the verandah with two girls.
Photos by the Author." [Full text available at archive.org/.../yakusuveryhearto00smit/yakusuveryhearto00smit_djvu.txt, JD 21/2/2014]

Related Images: Lanternslides LS.139219.TC1 and LS.139220.TC1 of the same woman are annotated as '? Makonde' of 'Tanganyika'. [JD 23/05/2018]

Cultural Group; The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique. The Makonde developed their culture on the Mueda Plateau in Mozambique. At present they live throughout Tanzania and Mozambique and have a small presence in Kenya. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makonde_people, AM 14/11/2017]

Related Image: Same image Kenred Smith's album 'Upoto, ?Haut Congo' in the collections of Baptist Missionary Society Archives, reference A/B5, with the following information: "Lokele Woman. Note Lip." The Place and Cultural Affliations fields have been amended accordingly.[JD 24/06/2024]