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| Keywords: Iron boat, cycles etc. en route Ngombe, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-4).jpg en Iron boat cycles etc en route Ngombe Congo ca 1900-1915 Black and white lantern slide showing an iron boat with a thatched canopy Ten Congolese men stand in the boat which is moored to the bank with wooden poles to propel the vessel Two bicycles stand on the bank along with water bottles and supplies The rowers wear shorts and shirts or are bare-chested Some wear hats that ressemble pith helmets The slide is captioned Iron boat cycles c ; En route Ngombe Ngombe-speaking peoples were feared by those of other ethnicities and missionaries alike as fierce warriors and cannibals According to an 1891 account by Harry Grattan Guinness he and Congo Balolo Mission pioneer John McKittrick had to run for their lives from a Ngombe village after it was revealed that they were to be killed 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-OS12-4 tif Coverage date 1900/1915 Subject unesco Inland water transport; Missionary work; 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-OS12-4 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 Transport and Tinted Slides CSCNWW33/OS12 Repository email divinity-CSWC ed ac uk Date created 1900/1915 Publisher of the digital version University of Southern California Libraries Subject aat genre exterior views Format aat lantern slides; photographs Access conditions http //www ed ac uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources Geographic subject rivers File CSCNWW33/OS12/4 Subject lcsh Ngombe African people 1900/1915 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78129 PD-old-70-1923 Bicycles 1910 Boats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Balolo Mission Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 | ||||
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