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Expedition member Léon Poutrin making notes in a dug-out canoe on Lake Tumba, with Hottot’s servant Moussa-Boubou in the white hat in the foreground. Teke objects photographed in the field by Hottot.
Annotated proofs for part of an article by Jacques de Nouvion which appeared in Le Monde Illustré. Street scene.
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Kango villagers arranged by Hottot for a group photograph to show physical characteristics.
Makoumou village, Lake Tumba, Congo Free State. 11 April 1908.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1994.62.43.2

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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>.