IDNO

P.57233.RDG

Description

Family portrait of a ‘Bodumbala’ man, woman, child, and infant, sitting on a wooden bench in a village clearing. The man, woman, and older child have extensive facial cicatrisation. The man wears a leopard? skin and feather headdress, neck ornaments of two rows of beads and a cord strung with pipes?, metal ring wrist and ankle ornaments, and has a large kuba knife in a leather sheath with the strap worn across the torso. The woman and children wear strands of beads as neck ornaments and metal rings on their wrists and ankles. Thatched huts and vegetation are in the background.

Place

C Africa; Republic of the Congo; ?Upoto; ?Monsembi; ?Bodumbala [?Bopoto]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1895 - 1914

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

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: No further information has been found on the term ‘Bodumbala”. [JD 15/6/2007]

Place: This photograph appears to be part of a series relating to the BMS missions in Upoto (Bopoto) and Monsembi (Munsembi, Monsembe, Bonsembe) . See P.57228-57251.RDG. These locations have been added to the place fields. [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]