Tuke and Mowue, two of the Bamum king's wives playing guitar, in Cameroon. 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 "Sainteninstrument von Königs Frauen in Nsum gespielt".
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