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The caption below the photograph reads: 'The excessive length of the skull always appears to be more conspicuous in children than adults. With old adults the skulls almost resume their normal proportions. This babies cranium seems to overflow it's binding [sic]'.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'The few women who wear the tamburu, and who do manual work have specially designed basket to carry their loads [sic]. They cannot carry anything on their heads'.

Scope and Contents Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption below the photograph reads: 'These sharpened bones are used for untying the tight knots of their coiffure when they reset their hair. Between times they are used as ornaments'.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...

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Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption below the photograph reads: 'This is not a tattoo but just a black dye, which can be washed off. This they do frequently (about once a fortnight) and paint on some entirely fresh and crazy design which they have thought of'.

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Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption below the photograph reads: 'These faint and numerous cicatrizations represent solely events in her sexual life; such as, - menstruations - husbands - intercourses and childbirths'.

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Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption below the photograph reads: 'The best tamburu I saw'.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'Sometimes the women wear heavy long grass skirts when they are working on the land. (Taken between Mogo and Medje.)'.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Banandi, near Beni, N. Congo'.

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101 x 79 mm. A view showing a rather thin Cuthbert Christy standing in front of the dead elephant. Christy records that this animal had previously stampeded through his camp kitchen one night, injuring one of his men.

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101 x 79 mm. A view showing a rather thin Cuthbert Christy standing in front of the dead elephant. Christy records that this animal had previously stampeded through his camp kitchen one night, injuring one of his men.

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101 x 79 mm. A view showing a rather thin Cuthbert Christy standing in front of the dead elephant. Christy records that this animal had previously stampeded through his camp kitchen one night, injuring one of his men.

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100 x 77 mm. A view showing an okapi shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

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The caption continues: 'The Mosembo wear shorter skirt than the Gombe'.