IDNO

LS.125643.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Congo region. XLV Congo. 30.
A typical man of Ngombe tribe. N. forest area - another Ngombe man (showing face scarification)."

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo

Cultural Affliation

Ngombe [historically Lingombe]

Named Person

Photographer

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1895 - 1914

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

MAA Facebook: Image published on 20/9/2018 with the caption: "Today is the last day for our Senior Curator in Archaeology, Dr. Chris Wingfield, so we wanted to celebrate the work that he has done on our Baptist Mission Society collections with a photo from our archives. The missionaries' presence is often only found in traces in the background, as this image shows nicely.
"A typical man of Ngombe tribe. N. forest area."
Democratic Republic of Congo
Photo by Rev. Kenred Smith, Baptist Mission Society, circa 1895 - 1914
LS.125643.TC1."
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