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English: Iron boat, cycles etc. en route Ngombe, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
  • Black and white lantern slide showing an iron boat with a thatched canopy. Ten Congolese men stand in the boat, which is moored to the bank, with wooden poles to propel the vessel. Two bicycles stand on the bank, along with water bottles and supplies. The rowers wear shorts and shirts, or are bare-chested. Some wear hats that ressemble pith helmets.
  • The slide is captioned: "Iron boat, cycles &c.; En route Ngombe." Ngombe-speaking peoples were feared by those of other ethnicities and missionaries alike as fierce warriors and cannibals. According to an 1891 account by Harry Grattan Guinness, he and Congo Balolo Mission pioneer John McKittrick had to run for their lives from a Ngombe village after it was revealed that they were to be killed.
  • 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-OS12-4.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Inland water transport; Missionary work;
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-OS12-4.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 Transport and Tinted Slides (CSCNWW33/OS12)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1900/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): exterior views
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: rivers
File: CSCNWW33/OS12/4
Subject (lcsh): Ngombe (African people)
Date 1900/1915 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78129
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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