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Group portrait of the expedition members, taken in Paris prior to departure.

PRM 1994.62.367.101

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Robert Hottot with a Kango woman.

PRM 1994.62.37.2

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Kango villagers arranged by Hottot for a group photograph.

PRM 1994.62.43.2

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A local auxiliary soldier showing skulls taken from a hut to Lieutenant Mourin.

PRM 1994.62.68.2

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Expedition member Léon Poutrin negotiating rapids on the Ubangi River, with servants Loeniba and Petit Boy.

PRM 1994.62.105.2

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Expedition member Léon Poutrin inspecting a bracelet worn by a Sara Kaba woman.

PRM 1994.62.147.2

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A dance at a village.

PRM 1994.62.153.2

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Fuelwood being loaded onto the river steamer D'Uzès on the return journey down the Chari River.

PRM 1994.62.290.2

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Local oarsmen paddling at the rear of an expedition boat, with Hottot's servant Moussa-Boubou in the white hat.

PRM 1994.62.127.2

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The deck of the passenger ship Afrique, taken at Banana near the mouth of the Congo River on the journey home.

PRM 1994.62.139.2

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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>.