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This shows the stereo photograph as a 3-D anaglyph – you will need a pair of red-blue anaglyph glasses to see the image in three dimensions.

Hottot's pet monkey Bikoko. In November 1908, while Hottot was away on his third expedition, Bikoko escaped his cage in an incident reported in the local French press: 'Cette semaine toute la police municipale a été mobilisé par un singe.'
Rueil, France. Circa 1909.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1994.62.421

 

 

Source: Philip N. Grover and Christopher Morton, Congo Journey: Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot's Expedition to Central Africa, 1908-9 [website], (published online September 2005, last updated 8 February 2006) <http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/congojourney>.