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Sir Henry Morton Stanley

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Africa

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Africa

Monkey hunting in the savannah of Kinsembo in Belgian Congo

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Monkey hunting in the savannah of Kinsembo in Belg...

Landscape in Congo

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Landscape in Congo

Africa

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Africa

Africa

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Africa

Africa

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Africa

Africa

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Africa

Ernest François Cambier

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Ernest François Cambier

Emperor of the Lundas in traditional clothes

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Emperor of the Lundas in traditional clothes

tent of african society

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tent of african society

Portrait of the King Plenti, from Congo

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Portrait of the King Plenti, from Congo

Forest of mangroves in a swamp

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Forest of mangroves in a swamp

Japanese Warship Kongo 1915

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Japanese Warship Kongo 1915

Fishing at the river ogooue

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Fishing at the river ogooue

Performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School, Kyoto

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Performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School...

A Fon bocio figure bound to constrain the power of the owners enemies

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A Fon bocio figure bound to constrain the power of...

A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

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A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving for royal or chiefly use, depicting a matrilineal ancestor

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Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving ...

A Kongo ivory carving depicting a European man holding a bottle

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A Kongo ivory carving depicting a European man hol...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

The Woman, the Snake and the Ocean vodun sculpture

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The Woman, the Snake and the Ocean vodun sculpture

A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together powerful objects to aid its maker

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A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together pow...

A magically charged fly whisk, with calabashes of powerful medicine on the handle

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A magically charged fly whisk, with calabashes of ...

The calabash chips forming the skirt of this bocio figure link it to Fa, the deity and system of divination

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The calabash chips forming the skirt of this bocio...

Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving for royal or chiefly use, depicting a matrilineal ancestor

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Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving ...

This figure of a man reading a book is believed to depict a Swedish or Swiss missionary

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This figure of a man reading a book is believed to...

A Kongo or Yombe carving depicting a bridegroom in European clothes, together with his bride and a relative

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A Kongo or Yombe carving depicting a bridegroom in...

Masks laid out before a performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School, Kyoto

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Masks laid out before a performance at the Noh The...

A Fon bocio figure deriving its magic power from the potent accumulation of charged ingredients

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A Fon bocio figure deriving its magic power from t...

A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

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A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

Figures such as this, with a mirror and bundle of medicines concealed in the cloth wrapper, were charged with power by a doctor (nganga) and used to protect, to promote wealth, or to attack enemies

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Figures such as this, with a mirror and bundle of ...

Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving for royal or chiefly use, depicting a matrilineal ancestor

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Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving ...

A carving of a European carried in a hammock

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A carving of a European carried in a hammock

Throughout eastern Congo a wide variety of figures of this type were made by doctors,nganga

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Throughout eastern Congo a wide variety of figures...

Performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School, Kyoto

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Performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School...

A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

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A magic object to deflect evil from its owner

The chains on this double figured Fon bocio are both a symbol of Gu, the vodu of iron and war and an image of slavery

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The chains on this double figured Fon bocio are bo...

The top of a staff with a figure representing Christ on the Cross

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The top of a staff with a figure representing Chri...

Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving for royal or chiefly use, depicting a matrilineal ancestor

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Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving ...

This figure of a man reading a book is believed to depict a Swedish or Swiss missionary

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This figure of a man reading a book is believed to...

Congo Free State murders. Congolese rubber slaves display the severed hands of two fellow workers,

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Congo Free State murders. Congolese rubber slaves ...

The peg in the head of this Fon bocio, seals in whispered instructions to activate the medicine

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The peg in the head of this Fon bocio, seals in wh...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive poweran idealised image of womens role and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

Masks laid out before a performance at the Noh Theatre of the Kongo School, Kyoto

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Masks laid out before a performance at the Noh The...

Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together powerful objects to aid their maker

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Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together power...

Soapstone figures, known as Ntadi, were placed on the graves of important people in the Kongo kingdom, probably from the 18th C

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Soapstone figures, known as Ntadi, were placed on ...

Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving for royal or chiefly use, depicting a matrilineal ancestor

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Ivory staff or sceptre finial, a prestige carving ...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

A Fon bocio, with tiny calabashes of medicine intended to empower the hand of the maker of this power filled charm

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A Fon bocio, with tiny calabashes of medicine inte...

A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together powerful objects to aid its maker

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A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together pow...

The two right hand figures are Kongo power sculptures, minkisi

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The two right hand figures are Kongo power sculptu...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together powerful objects to aid its maker

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A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together pow...

Iron, the symbol of Gu vodu of war, is bound in with two figures in this powerful Fon bocio medicine

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Iron, the symbol of Gu vodu of war, is bound in wi...

Throughout eastern Congo a wide variety of figures of this type were made by doctors,nganga

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Throughout eastern Congo a wide variety of figures...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power an idealised image of womens role and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

Kneeling figure of a man, with medicinal substances attached to head

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Kneeling figure of a man, with medicinal substance...

A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together powerful objects to aid its maker

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A Fon bocio, accumulating and binding together pow...

Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female reproductive power, an idealised image of womens role, and by implication of the growth and wealth of the kingdom

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Mother and child carving (phemba) honouring female...

A female figure said to be associated with a cult for the spirit of ancestors

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A female figure said to be associated with a cult ...

A magic object binding together images and containers of secret protective power

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A magic object binding together images and contain...

Iron for Gu, vodu of war is bound in with the figures in this powerful Fon bocio medicine

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Iron for Gu, vodu of war is bound in with the figu...