IDNO

P.143786.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7160.ACH1: "Woman making palm oil."

This is probably a posed photo, possibly for humour?, as palm oil is not produced in this way. The nut is very hard and would cut the woman's feet. It is more likely the nut has just been harvested and brought back in the canoes from trees across the river. The nut is boiled in order to extract the oil. [Information provided by the Great Lakes Initiative project team, JD 4/6/2016]

Place

C Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo; northern Congo

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Smith, Kenred (Rev.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1895 - 1914

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

None

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.143776.ACH2 - P.143792.ACH2 were found unaccessioned in a brown envelope, now numbered C863/, in Drawer A.30, and are probably prints collected as part of the preparation of the Haddon Mounted Collection.