IDNO

LS.71128.BUR

Description

Two African craftsmen, wearing aprons, with a monk, standing in front of the entrance to the monastery at Kansenia. The man in the middle is showing a large beaten metal plaque in the form of a human face, the man to his right is showing a small square plaque decorated with a human figure. A group of three men are seated on a low wall in the background near a parked bus. A man and woman are standing in the shadow of the monastery entrance with a parked truck behind.

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; Kansenia [Congo; Zaire]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1950s

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 28/11/2006]