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Expedition member Georges Barbat and local carriers setting out along a section of the Ubangi River. A stringed musical instrument, two rattles made of polished seed pods, and two bells collected by Hottot in 1906.
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 in the Kasbah.
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Hottot inspecting Roman antiquities with Jean-Jacques Brousson, the secretary of Anatole France and a friend with whom he maintained a regular correspondence.
Nîmes, France. 1928.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1994.62.669

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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>.