IDNO

P.143770.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7139.ACH1: "Bapoto. Woman suckling child, N. Congo. Child’s head bound. Woman wearing ostrich-shell bead necklace."

The band around the woman's head is probably the strap for a back-carrier. [Information provided by the Great Lakes Initiative project team, JD 4/6/2016]

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; northern Congo; Bopoto

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1905

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collectionvon Hugel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

None

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.143767.ACH2 - P.143775.ACH2 were found unaccessioned in a cream envelope, now numbered C862/, in Drawer A.30, and are probably prints collected as part of the preparation of the Haddon Mounted Collection.

MAA Annual Report: 1905 V. Photographs, Prints, and Drawings.
Ethnological. 1337. Forty photographs (6" x 4".5 and smaller) of the natives of Bopoto, Congo Free State. Taken by the donor, the Rev. Kenred Smith. [JD 2/24/2014]

MAA Accession Register: B.1903 - 08 (Books).
1905.64.A-Z and AA-BB. A Series of twenty-eight photographs; depicting the, customs, arts, etc, of the natives of Bopoto, Congo States. 4".3 x 3".2 - 6".2 x 4".5.
Photographed by the Donor.
The Rev. Kenred Smith. [JD 2/24/2014]