Three Mongo types - Women, Congo, ca. 1900-1915

Black and white lantern slide showing three women belonging to the Mongo ethnic group. Each woman has elaborately sculpted braided hair, and wears a tight string of beads around her neck. The Mongo are one of the most numerous ethnic groups in the Congo, a diverse people living in the equatorial forest, and are one of the hundreds of ethnic groupings in Africa using Bantu languages. The title to the slide reads: "Three Mongo types - Women. When lady on right saw photo she said, 'I did not know I was so good looking!'" 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.

本黑白玻璃幻灯片展示了三位隶属于芒戈族（Mongo）的女性。每位女性均留着造型精致的编发，颈部佩戴一串贴合颈型的珠串项链。芒戈族是刚果境内人口最多的族群之一，该族群人员构成多元，栖息于赤道森林地带，同时亦是非洲数百种使用班图语（Bantu languages）的族群分支之一。该幻灯片的标题为：“三位芒戈女性典型形象。右侧的女士在看到这张照片后说道：‘我竟不知自己这般貌美！’” 本幻灯片源自刚果巴洛洛传教团（Congo Balolo Mission）传教士所汇编的藏品系列。该传教团于1889年由东伦敦国内外传教士培训学院督导创立，其依托的东伦敦国内外传教士培训学院于1900年后发展为跨教派福音传教组织——域外传教联盟（Regions Beyond Missionary Union）。