photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,CA61.60
- Description
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Belgian Congo, full-length frontal portrait of two adult male "albinos", one of whom is "chief of Urumbi region". One wearing jacket [?] and cloths, other wearing loin-cloth, metal wrist-ornaments, arm-ornaments, leg-ornaments and ear-rings. Rural setting.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
Format: Image obscured by patches of light.
- Production date
- 1891-1900 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.30 centimetres
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Width: 8.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Geography: Urumbi not identified in sources.
Circumstances: [HOF-] PIC DOC 14. Copy prints made in 1982.
Original negatives held by Wellcome Institute.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: Wellcome Institute for Medicine; see [HOF-] PIC DOC 14.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,CA61.60
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AF/CA61/60