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| Keywords: Elaborate hairstyling, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-13).jpg Belgian Congo present day Democratic Republic of the Congo Hair styling was used among Luba women to encode memory about a person's history status and occupation One woman has a chin length braided style with a raised comb of hair across the top of her head The woman in the centre of the image has a shorter braided style to ear length and the youngest of the group has two long matted braids The older women in the group also bear geometric scarification marks notably on their chins Scarification was a process in which small scars were inflicted and their healing controlled in order to create patterns The practice was common in Africa to denote status history ethnic group and beauty For women the ability to bear the pain of scarification was seen as a sign of the ability to endure the dangers of childbirth The patterns were also seen as a mark of socialisation that marked humankind above the animal kingdom Each women wears a short necklace around her neck 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 Photographer Unknown Filename IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-13 tif Coverage date 1900/1915 Subject unesco Women; Ethnic groups Part of collection International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Part of subcollection Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity University of Edinburgh U K ca 1900-ca 1940s Subject corporate name Congo-Balolo Mission Repository name Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-13 tif Repository address The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity New College Mound Place Edinburgh EH1 2LX United Kingdom Geographic subject country Congo Format aacr2 lantern slides 8 2 x 8 2cm Geographic subject continent Africa Rights Contact the repository for details Part of series Regions Beyond Missionary Union Congo People and Places CSCNWW33/OS11 Repository email divinity-CSWC ed ac uk Date created 1900/1915 Publisher of the digital version University of Southern California Libraries Subject aat genre group portraits Format aat lantern slides; photographs Access conditions http //www ed ac uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources Geographic subject populated places File CSCNWW33/OS11/13 Subject lcsh Women--Africa; Scarification body marking ; Hairdressing 1900/1915 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78046 PD-old-70-1923 Women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1910s Women with braids Congo Congo-Balolo Mission Black and white photographs of women Congo Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Hair fashion in Africa | ||||
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