Bamessi dancers, at the funeral of Nzapndnunke, mother of the Bamum king Njoya. The photograph was send by Anna Wuhrmann to Jean-René Brutsch, missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society). On the back of the photograph, she wrote "Aux funérailles de Nzapndnunke morte à Foumban le 2/VII/1913, mère du sultan Njoya".
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