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English: Elaborate hairstyling, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
  • Black and white lantern slide showing three women with elaborate, braided hair styles, in colonial Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
  • Hair styling was used among Mongo 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.
Français : Photographie noir et blanc montrant 3 femmes Mongo aux coiffures élaborées, faites dans le contexte de l'époque coloniale du Congo belge (République démocratique du Congo). La coiffure luba traduisait l'histoire, le statut et la profession d'une personne. Les femmes plus âgées de ce groupe portent des scarifications géométriques (dont sur leur menton), qui étaient courantes en Afrique pour désigner le statut, l'histoire, le groupe ethnique et accentuer la beauté. Pour les femmes, la capacité à supporter la douleur de la scarification a aussi été considérée comme un signe d'une capacité à endurer les dangers de l'accouchement. Ces signes contribuent aussi à la socialisation, qui selon la légende de l'image a mis l'humanité au-dessus du règne animal. Chaque femme porte un court collier de cou. Source : Collection faite par des missionnaires de la Congo-Balolo Mission mission interconfessionnelle conduite sous l'égide de l'East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions
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
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|date=1900/1915 (date created) |author=Unknown authorUnknown author |source=http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78046

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