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Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Anne Eisner Putnam photographic slide collection, circa 1960.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 411
Abstract

Photographs of pygmies of the Congo, contains multiple images of children, one slide of an okapi.

Dates: circa 1960

James Chapin photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 165-166
Scope and Contents

Mostly consists of field photographs from the Belgian Congo including birds, nests, large mammals, lakes, general landscape and buildings. Also includes pictures of colleagues and/or family, Pygmies and a Pygmy dance, Watusi dance and some images showing the preparation for the Ross Expedition (1957). A few slides taken in the United States, primarily California.

Dates: circa 1953-1961