IDNO

P.56850.

Description

A woman seated outside an adobe house and making a pot, with a water? pot in front, and tools on a bark? mat to the right. [JD 2/6/2009].

Identified as coming from Nsei or Babessi from Western Grassfields of Cameroon. [Mathias Alubafi, Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge].

Place

C Africa; Cameroon; ?Centre Province

Cultural Affliation

Tikar

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Source

Format

Photomechanical Print

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56850 to P.56871. were found inside the brown envelope C268/1/1/ which was inside the first drawer of the green cabinet, now numbered C268/1/.
C268/ is the new number given to the entire cabinet which was formerly numbered as batch 144.

P.56850 and P.56849 are cuttings from the same source. They will also have the same donor. [SG 21/11/2000]

Source: P.56836 to P.56849 may have been collected by Rev. Kenred Smith. [SG 21/11/2000]

Source: The source date is mentioned in the Museum’s Annual Reports,1905 p. 21, with the following entry:
“V. Photographs, Prints and Drawings.
Ethnological.
1338. Thirty-five photographs (6” x 4.5” and smaller) of the natives of Bopoto, Congo Free State. Taken by the donor, the Rev. Kenred Smith.” [JD 2/6/2009]

Source: Although Kenred Smith is named on the envelope C268/1/1/1/:, the print is captioned “Tikar - Topferin”. Tikar is a cultural group of Centre Province, Cameroon, and therefore unlikely to have been donated by Kenred Smith. The Place and Source fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 2/6/2009]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “*Africa; North East Africa; South Bantu
Africa; North East Africa; Southern Ethiopia”, but research suggests that the image is from Cameroon. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 2/6/2009]