M0003744: Facial scarification relating to the Mongo tribe, Upper Congo

Previous title, replaced May 2020: The Mongo Tribal mask, wheal like marks on foreground and beside ear on cheek

Photograph of a print publication of Photograph of a male individual with the caption "The Mongo Tribal mask." The Mongo tribe occupied a large part of the upper reaches of the Lulongo river, in Upper Congo. The "mask" is a scarification with wheal-like marks on foreground and beside the ea, on the cheek.

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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