IDNO

P.51288.

Description

“At the end of their initiation period, which is a training for adult life, boys of the Bapende district, Belgian Congo, return from the bush school to their village. The bearded mask symbolises that they have reached man’s estate.” [Haddon’s? annotation, JD 14/4/2010]

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; Bapende District [Belgian Congo; Zaire]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hilton-Simpson, M.W. [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1911

Collection Name

Source

Format

Photomechanical

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.51281 to P.51288 were in the envelope now numbered C227/ which was kept in wooden drawer I.

The prints were accomapnied by a piece of paper:
“9 mask from Ibo land, Nigeria. (Note the resemblance of the mask with the face of a dead person)” [manuscript in pencil]