Chair making, Congo, ca. 1920-1930

Black and white lantern slide showing Congolese men standing behind chairs that they have made, presumably in a craft class. The wicker chairs are of Western design. They stand in front of thatched and straw walled buildings. 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（lantern slide）记录了数名刚果男子立于自制座椅之后的场景，该场景推测出自一堂手工工艺课程。这批藤编座椅采用西式设计，男子们站在以茅草与秸秆砌筑墙体的建筑前方。这套幻灯藏品源自为刚果巴洛洛传教团（Congo Balolo Mission）服务的传教士所整理的馆藏；该传教团于1889年创立，由东伦敦国内外传教士培训学院（East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions）监管，并于1900年后发展为跨教派福音传教机构——超越地域传教联盟（Regions Beyond Missionary Union）。