M0002712: A Nganga in Kisangani / M0002712EB: "N'gouna, Chief of the River-Tuaregs"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Ngouna, Chief of the river Tuaregs, Burem, French Soudan

Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction of a photograph of a woman identified as a Nganga Nkisi, a person who can divine the cause of illness and misfortune through spirits and inhabited objects, taken in Kisangani, with caption titled "Nganga Nkissi - The Witch Doctor: Stanleyville". Right-hand side of plate: Reproduction of a photograph of N'gouna, Chief of the Kel Entsar, a group of the Tuareg people on the Niger river, Sudan, with caption underneath. These images were reproduced from The National Geographic Magazine.

04 January 1932

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.