Billington, A, Reverend, fl1900s (missionary)
Person
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A Bateke Chief, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2195
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a Bateke Chief sitting on a leopard skin wearing a cowrie shell hat and a brass collar around his neck and holding a buffalo hair whisk with another man standing next to him in front of a house in the early 20th century. The Bateke people were from the Stanley Pool [Pool Malebo] area of the Republic of Congo.
Dates:
1870s-1930s