IDNO

P.57230.RDG

Description

Three generations of Bopoto men sitting around a bowl of food on the ground. The two older men sit on low wooden stools while the youth sits on the ground. The older man holds a wooden spoon? and the youth holds a metal spoon. The two older men have facial cicatrisation and wear neck ornaments consisting of horns? and pipes? on a cord. All three men wear loin cloths.

Place

C Africa; Republic of the Congo; Upoto [Bopoto]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1895 - 1914

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57192.RDG to P.57260.RDG were found in C274/1/ which came from C274/. The latter was kept in Wooden Drawer VI.

Place: Upoto (Bopoto) is situated almost at the extreme north of the great ‘Horseshoe Bend’ (in 2 deg 7’ N. lat.) [Source: ‘The Upper Congo as a Waterway’, Rev. George Crenfell, in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 20, No 5 (Nov 1902) pp. 485-498. JSTOR Online. JD 4/10/2006]

Place: A BMS mission was established in Upoto (Bopoto) in 1890. [Source: ‘Protestant missions and the History of Lingala’ William J. Samarin, in Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 16, Fasc. 2 (June 1986) pp. 138-163, JSTOR Online, JD 4/10/2006]

Photographer: This photograph appears to be part of the series of prints annotated as being “K. Smith’s Congo phot.” See P.57233.RDG. The record has been amended accordingly. [JD 14/6/2007]

Biographical Information: See Biographies file for information on Reverend Kenred Smith. [JD 14/6/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [JD 2/7/2007]