2000.49.16

Collection type

Photograph

Description

Stereo card showing the removal of a brass collar from around a woman's neck inside a house or shelter. The woman is lent over an anvil resting on a wooden block. A European man holds a hammer and the collar is held by native men. There are a group of people gathered behind to watch.

Geographical reference

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of

Lukolela

Cultural groups

Bobangi

Person

Expedition or compiler John Whitehead

Photographer John Whitehead

PRM source E. J. Clarke

Date / Period

Date of photograph: 1890 - 1947

Acquisition information

Donated: 2000

Photographic process

Print gelatin silver

Dimensions

Length x Width 140 x 79 mm, Length x Width 177 x 89 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2000.49.16

Research and responses

PRM Object Related Documents File - Correspondence from Reverend Clarke, details of how he obtained the collection, biographical information on the collector Reverend Whitehead, and list of collector's manuscripts and photographs held at the Baptist Missionary Society Archive, Didcot, Oxon. Also photocopies of two photographs (prints in Photographs and Manuscripts collection and listed on database: 2000.49.16 & .17), one showing the necklace framing a photograph of the wearer and the other showing the Reverend John Whitehead removing the necklace from the wearer. [JD 12/9/2005]

This collar is said to be objects collection (2000.49.1). Also see related photograph 2000.49.17. [CF 27/2/2003]

Search terms: Ornament, Dwelling, Tool, Colonial