M0002712: A Nganga in Kisangani / M0002712EB: "N'gouna, Chief of the River-Tuaregs"

Date:: 04 January 1932

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/22/90

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002602-M0002724WT/D/1/20/1/22
        M0002712: A Nganga in Kisangani / M0002712EB: "N'gouna, Chief of the River-Tuaregs"WT/D/1/20/1/22/90

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Ngouna, Chief of the river Tuaregs, Burem, French Soudan

Description

Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction of a photograph of a woman identified as a Nganga Nkisi, a person who can divine the cause of illness and misfortune through spirits and inhabited objects, taken in Kisangani, with caption titled "Nganga Nkissi - The Witch Doctor: Stanleyville". Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of N'gouna, Chief of the Kel Entsar, a group of the Tuareg people on the Niger river, Sudan, with caption underneath. These images were reproduced from The National Geographic Magazine.

Publication/Creation

04 January 1932

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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