IDNO

LS.71120.BUR

Description

Portrait of a woman from Katanga Province standing posing wearing a skirt wrapper, a frilled blouse, a head cloth and a string of beads around her neck. There is a dog behind her. The shadow of the photographer can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner of the frame.

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; Katanga Province [Belgian Congo; Zaire]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The lantern slide was in wooden box formerly numbered 139 now numbered C318/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 23/11/2006]