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Robert Hottot with two monkeys shot during his first expedition to the Congo. A pair of iron riding anklets, used as spurs by horsemen of the Sara tribe, collected by Hottot at Fort Archambault in August 1908.
A cutting from the newspaper La Dépêche de Brest, with a short entry about the Hottot mission. Houses on the shore at Kodzu, seen from the room in which Hottot was staying.
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The boats which the expedition members used to voyage down the Chari River.
Fort Archambault, Chad. August 1908.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1994.62.188.2

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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>.