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A. Robert Hottot
Ologhi ceremony: body laid out on the ground with stomach cut open and the internal organs pulled out to one side. [Alima River, Bas-Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of]
1906
Glass negative
15 x 9.9 cm
Pitt Rivers Museum
Alfred Louis Ernest Hubert Hottot - Donated 1994, 1994.62.383.1
LL/113200
Found wrapped in a sheet of paper with various notes on it and a letter from the British Museum to Mrs Hottot dated 15 September 1951. Now in RDF. [CF 18/11/2002]
Although the region is given as Bas-Congo (see .3) which is in the DR Congo, Alima River is in the People's Republic of Congo. (Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer) [CF 18/11/2002]
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