File:Man with swollen glands, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-15).jpg

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English: Man with swollen glands, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
  • Black and white lantern slide showing a Congolese man with extremely swollen glands. He is naked except for a loin cloth.
  • In Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
  • He can be seen with scarification marks on his cheekbones, jawline and forehead. Scarification was a common form of body modification in Africa that conveyed meaning on the body through the inflication and controlled healing of wounds to form particular marks. For men, this could often be a test of endurance, carry symbolic meaning or be a sign of cultural belonging.
  • The man also has a line of hair deliberately cut horizontally across the top of his head. This style could also have symbolic meaning, since hair style carried meanings connected with lifestyle or status amongst the Luba people of the Congo.
  • 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.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-15.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Diseases; Indigenous peoples; Ethnic groups
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Subject (corporate name): Congo-Balolo Mission
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-15.tif
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): Congo
Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo Lantern Slides (CSCNWW33/OS10)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1900/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: medical facilities
File: CSCNWW33/OS10/15
Subject (lcsh): Scarification (body marking); Lymph nodes
Date 1900/1915 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78040
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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