Congo (nation)
Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:
A girl I met between Megrindra and Egbundu, 1935 - 1936
A girl in the Alumbi country, N.E. Congo. She may be Alumbi, 1934
A full-length portrait.
[A Gombe girl with ginger hair], 1934
A head and shoulders portrait. Upper Zaire.
A Gombe girl with ginger hair at Buburu comfortably posed on my deck chair, 1934
Upper Zaire.
A Gombe man near Sikoru, 1934
The full caption reads: 'A Gombe man near Sikoru, in the Giri Swamp who had the misfortune to burn off his lower jaw by smoking himself unconscious with 'has[h]ish' and falling forwards into a fire'.
A gorgeously coloured puff adder killed at Ekibondo (Northern Congo), 1935 - 1936
A large message drum at Atanakea (Mangbetu village), 1935 - 1936
Showing Powell standing beside a message drum. The caption below the photograph continues: 'This drum is carved out of one peice [sic] of wood; it has a long narrow opening at the top, and the inside is quite hollow. All the country round here is low lying swampy forest and the climate consequently hot and sticky. I usually wore a sarong (Kikoi) which proved a comfortable and cool dress for walking'.
A large old female Okapi, 1913
102 x 79 mm. A view showing the dead Okapi with Pygmy trackers standing in the background. This was Christy's second okapi, shot in the Ituri Forest near Beni.
A Lobula message drum at Imese, 1934
The caption continues: 'Like the Ayancha frames'.
A Mangbele man, 1935 - 1936
The caption above the photograph continues: 'The Mangbele are a neighbouring tribe of the Mangbetu. They all tall, thin, bearded and unfriendly'.
A Mangbetu grave, 1935 - 1936
The caption below the photograph continues: 'A man has just been buried, and his wives and relatives are wailing on the grave. (Taken close to Medje.)'.
A Mangbetu woman wearing tamburu, 1935 - 1936
A Mombodo man lies on his bed, while his wife dresses his hair for him, 1935 - 1936
A new lava stream (still hot), 1934
Views of the crater of Nyamaragira, an active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.
A pygmie village - Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo], 1939 - 1941
125 x 125 mm. Showing many people stood around a central object.
A stream we passed running through the forest during a trek from M'bogo to Iruma, 1934
The caption continues: 'Taken near Cachiamagulia'. In Upper Zaire.
A stream we passed running through the forest during a trek from M'bogo to Iruma, 1934
The caption continues: 'Taken near Cachiamagulia'. In Upper Zaire.
[A three-man travelling band], 1935 - 1936
The caption below the photograph reads: 'A travelling band came to Ekibondo - a Bangwa village while I was staying there, and provided music for a wild dance which lasted well into the night'.
A typical Mangbetu home in the forest, 1935 - 1936
The caption below the photograph continues: 'Their huts are made of split cane, and thatched with leaves, and branches of palms'.
A well graded [road] through the forest between Beni and Lubero in the Congo, 1934
[A woman sitting on what resembles the chimney of a kiln], 1934
The caption on the album page reads: 'At Gabrui'.
[A woman sitting on what resembles the chimney of a kiln], 1934
The caption on the album page reads: 'At Gabrui'.
Across the Giri swamps. Loading my tiny little canoes at Sikoru, 1934
Between the Ubangi and Congo (Zaire) rivers (formerly the Belgian Congo). The caption on the album page reads: 'The Giri Swamps lie between the Ubangui and the Congo Rivers. A greater part of the swamp is flooded primeval forest'.
Advanced case, Leopoldville [i.e. Kinshasa] 1903, 1903
100 x 73 mm (mounted on card). A view showing a young African standing over a dying, emaciated youth.
[African group, ? Congo 1903], 1903
156 x 109 mm. A view showing a posed group of Africans, the men (possibly with sleeping sickness) seated in front of a row of women with decorative scarring.