IDNO

P.57246.RDG

Description

An older woman is making a round basketry bowl from cane while sitting with a second woman on the ground outside a lattice and cob wall hut with a thatch roof. A child stands in the window of the hut watching on. Both women have extensive facial cicatrisation, and the younger women wears a bead neck ornament, and metal rings on her wrists and ankles.

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Equateur Province

Cultural Affliation

Ngombe

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: This photograph appears to be part of a series relating to the BMS missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. See P.57228-57251.RDG. These locations have been added to the place fields. [JD 14/6/2007]

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]