Village group, Congo, ca. 1900-1915

Black and white lantern slide showing a group of villagers in the Congo. The group comprises an older man, women, a young man and girls and boys. Most are bare-chested, although the young man wears an open shirt and a loin cloth and a girl wears a wrap dress. Some of the group wear beads. They pose in front of a thatched dwelling, and a pile of yams can be seen to the side of the image. 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.