Village gathering, Congo, ca. 1920-1930

Black and white lantern slide showing a posed group in a Congolese village. The group is made up of men, women and children. Many of the women in the group wear head-wraps, whilst only a few men wear Western style hats. A Congolese man stands to the rear of the group (which is otherwise sitting). He wears a wide brimmed hat, shirt and trousers, and may be a Christian teacher or leader. 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.