Three representatives of the Bamum people, at the funeral of Nzabndunke, king Njoya's mother: one of her brother, a noble man and a slave. 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 "Die 3 Stande beim Tod der Königin-Mutter : ein Bruder des Königs, ein Nji, ein Sklave".
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