Showing four women standing in a line. The caption below the photograph continues: 'Niapu is one of the three most important Mangbetu Sultanis. They looked very sour when Niapu told them to come and pose for me'.

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 childrens heads for the first year to eighteen months after birth. This extraordinary practise in no ways upset their sanity'.