Black and white lantern slide showing three women belonging to the Mongo ethnic group. Each woman has elaborately sculpted braided hair, and wears a tight string of beads around her neck. The Mongo are one of the most numerous ethnic groups in the Congo, a diverse people living in the equatorial forest, and are one of the hundreds of ethnic groupings in Africa using Bantu languages. The title to the slide reads: "Three Mongo types - Women. When lady on right saw photo she said, 'I did not know I was so good looking!'" This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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