102 x 80 mm. A view showing a dead jungle elephant with three African hunters standing by its head. The caption on the reverse of one of the four duplicates states 'well showing instantaneous effect of a good head shot' (referring to the seated, rather than lying, position of the animal).

102 x 80 mm. A view showing a dead jungle elephant with three African hunters standing by its head. The caption on the reverse of one of the four duplicates states 'well showing instantaneous effect of a good head shot' (referring to the seated, rather than lying, position of the animal).

102 x 80 mm. A view showing a dead jungle elephant with three African hunters standing by its head. The caption on the reverse of one of the four duplicates states 'well showing instantaneous effect of a good head shot' (referring to the seated, rather than lying, position of the animal).

102 x 80 mm. A view showing a dead jungle elephant with three African hunters standing by its head. The caption on the reverse of one of the four duplicates states 'well showing instantaneous effect of a good head shot' (referring to the seated, rather than lying, position of the animal).

97 x 75 mm. A view showing Pygmy hunters seated on the corpse of an elephant shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

97 x 75 mm. A view showing Pygmy hunters seated on the corpse of an elephant shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

97 x 78 mm. A view showing Pygmy hunters and the corpse of an elephant shot by Christy. Photograph probably by Christy.

97 x 78 mm. A view showing Pygmy hunters and the corpse of an elephant shot by Christy. Photograph probably by Christy.

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

170 x 118 mm. A view showing a group of Africans seated on the ground in front of a row of huts. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

118 x 170 mm. A half length portrait of a Congolese woman showing the symmetrical decorative raised scars on belly and chest. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

118 x 169 mm. A half-length portrait of two Congolese women showing different patterns of decorative scarring on belly and chest. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

187 x 241 mm. A view showing a Congolese youth with very large open sores on face and body. Disease unidentified. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

181 x 233 mm. A view showing a Congolese youth with very large open sores on face and body. Disease unidentified. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

85 x 72 mm. A view showing an unidentified heavily bearded European standing in the centre of a group of Pygmies. Photographer unknown, possibly Christy.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

102 x 81 mm. A view showing one of Christy's camps in the Congo. In the foreground one of his servants holds a large elephant tusk towards the camera.

100 x 78 mm. A view showing a large female chimpanzee, shot by Christy and held up to be photographed by his tent boy.

102 x 76 mm. A view showing the four members of the Congo Sleeping Sickness Commission standing in front of a cage covered in gauze, presumably built to store captured tsetse flies. The figures are, from left to right, Dr John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), Dr Inge Heiberg, representing the Congo Government on the Commission, Cuthbert Christy and Dr Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905). Photographer unknown.