The caption below the photograph continues: 'They are wearing the Tamburu headdress which is only worn by the better class women and Chief's wives. The woman on the extreme right has an exceptionally well shaped head'.

An additional note on the top of the album page reads: 'The MANGBETU Tribe live on the northern edge of the Eturi Forest in the Belgian Congo. Their chief characteristic is the deformation of the skull which they attain by binding the children's heads for the first year to eighteen months after birth. This extraordinary practise in no ways upset their sanity'.