Youths (?) wearing the wooden masks Muyombo (left) and Nganga Ngombo (the diviner) (right) (the Muyombo mask is worn incorrectly in order to show it off better, it is normally worn with the face on top of the head)
in Torday Collection, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts; photographed by Emile Torday, 1875-1931 (1900) , 2 page(s)
Details
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2013 Royal Anthropological Institute. All Rights Reserved.
- Content Type
- Photograph
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hilton-Simpson, Melville William, 1881-1938, Emile Torday, 1875-1931
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 2
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Masks, Youth, Town life, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Divination, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Divination