Lot Essay
This is among the earliest surviving salt prints of Zande warriors, upper Congo.
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Zande tribesmen with skull tree, Congo, probably mid-late 1850s
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Zande tribesmen with skull tree, Congo, probably mid-late 1850s
salt print
6½ x 4 7/8in. (16.5 x 12.3cm.)
Zande tribesmen with skull tree, Congo, probably mid-late 1850s
salt print
6½ x 4 7/8in. (16.5 x 12.3cm.)
Literature
E. Edwards, Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920, London, 1992, fig.14, for a later image of skull trophies.
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