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Robert Hottot leaving a native hut. An instrument at the astronomical observatory in Peking.
Robert Hottot’s bookplate, designed for him by André Rouveyre, this example being from Hottot’s copy of Max Jacob’s Le terrain bouchaballe. Walking on the Great Wall of China.
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A stringed musical instrument ('une sorte de mandoline'), two rattles made of polished seed pods, and two bells collected by Hottot in 1906. This photograph of the objects, which was taken by Hottot some time later, was given to the Pitt Rivers Museum by the French explorer in 1934.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1998.175.8

 

 

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>.