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Fighting techniques of the Mbagha observed by the photographer. Teke objects photographed in the field by Hottot.
A postcard sent by Hottot to his address in Rueil, a practice adopted which alerted those at home to the traveller’s whereabouts and provided Hottot himself with a souvenir of the voyage. Robert Hottot swimming in the River Indre.
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The camera which Hottot used on the expedition was a stereoscope that exposed twin images onto glass plate negatives.

PRM 1994.62.703.1-.12

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Hottot's viewer through which the stereo images could be seen in three dimensions, bringing both drama and immediacy to the viewing experience.

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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>.