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English: Ngombe from Bosomayali-Bongwonga village that chased McKittrick & Dr H Guinness, Congo, ca. 1900-1910
  • Black and white lantern slide showing a group of men, women and children, speakers of the Ngombe language, in Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
  • Members of the group wear both African and Western dress. An older Congolese man sits to the front centre of the image, wearing a white wide brimmed hat that singles him out from the group. The Ngombe-speaking people had a fearsome reputation amongst both neighbouring ethnic groups and European missionaries, as fierce warriors and cannabals.
  • The caption of the slide refers to an expedition undertaken in 1891 by Harry Grattan Guinness (later founder of Regions Beyond Missionary Union) and John McKittrick, an early pioneer of the Congo-Balolo Mission. The pair set out to explore lands north of Bondinga. They visited a sympathetic settlement, Bosi Dikolo, where they were asked to make a diplomatic trip to a neighbouring Ngombe speaking tribe at Bongwongo (Bongwonga). After an initially hostile reception at Bongwonga, all did seem well until the feelings of the local chief seemed to turn, and McKittrick and Guinness received news that they would be killed. McKittrick, Guinness and their party fled Bongwongo, firing their guns, with the hostile Ngombe people in pursuit. However, they safely returned to Bosi Dikolo, leaving the dispute in the hands of the State and the villages themselves.
  • 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-OS11-60.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): 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-OS11-60.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 People and Places (CSCNWW33/OS11)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1900/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): group portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: populated places
File: CSCNWW33/OS11/60
Subject (lcsh): Villages
Date 1900/1915
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78116
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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