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| Keywords: Man with scarification patterns, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-18).jpg Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo present day Democratic Republic of the Congo Scarification was a common form of body modification in Africa that conveyed meaning on the body through the inflication and controlled healing of wounds to form particular marks For men this could often be a test of endurance carry symbolic meaning or be a sign of cultural belonging Christian missionaries disapproved of the practice since it was believed to distort a natural body made in God's image During the 1800s and 1900 images of scarification were distributed in Europe and came to be seen as a sign of the exotic 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-OS10-18 tif Coverage date 1900/1915 Subject unesco Indigenous peoples; 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-OS10-18 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 Lantern Slides CSCNWW33/OS10 Repository email divinity-CSWC ed ac uk Date created 1900/1915 Publisher of the digital version University of Southern California Libraries Subject aat genre portraits Format aat lantern slides; photographs Access conditions http //www ed ac uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources File CSCNWW33/OS10/18 Subject lcsh Scarification body marking ; Men 1900/1915 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78043 PD-old-70-1923 Scarification in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face Men of Africa 1910s People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Face Congo-Balolo Mission face 20th-century black and white portrait photographs of men Congo Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Men with scarification | ||||
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