IDNO

P.57237.RDG

Description

An older Turumbu woman dressing the hair of a man, who wears neck ornaments and a knife in a sheath with the strap across the torso, while a group of villagers in the background watch on.
[As a note, these villagers do not have any facial cicatrisation as seen in the photographs of the Upoto, Monsembi, Bodumbala people. JD 19/6/2007]

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of the Congo; ?Yakusa

Cultural Affliation

Loleke; Turumbu

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.

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]

Place: “Yakusa is a station of the Baptist Mission Society, situated on the Congo immediately west of Stanley Falls. For a distance of 75 miles either bank of the river is here inhabited by the Lokele.” [Source: The Lokele Tribe, Review author[s]: F. R. C.
The Geographical Journal © 1911, JSTOR Online, JD 19/6/2007]

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]