Along the Congo River (1910-1919)

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Africa.

A French ship off the coast of the Canary Islands.

Crew and passengers on board.

The captain looks through binoculars at the hilly shore.

A boat on the water, sailors are rowing.

A boat with new passengers approaches the ship, they are lifted on board.

Map of Africa, equator line.

The watershed of Lake Chad and the Congo River belongs to France and Belgium.

The expedition departs from the port of Matadi deep into the Belgian Congo.

The railway goes through the jungle.

An African settlement is visible to the side.

Tropical forest.

A stop along the way, a crowd of Africans near the train, Africans with children.

The route lies from Brazzaville to Bangut / Banti? / along the Congo - a full-flowing river in Africa.

The banks of the river.

An African swims to the shore in a boat.

Bangut / Banti /? / is the shopping center of the region.

The market in Bangut, goes Trader, women with tied children.

Separate stalls with goods.

Native settlement.

Naked African women walk, sit near huts.

Map of Southwest Africa.

The line goes along the Congo River from Brazzaville to Bengut.

Waterfall.

A large hut next to a barn.

Here the tribes deliver rubber and hand it over to European agents.

Negroes sit with large baskets of rubber, waiting in line.

They pour the rubber into baskets and carry it to the hut.

Dances of the Dankas tribe near Bamberi.

The dancers are divided into two groups, one group paints its body and face white.

They decorate their headdresses with local thorny plants.

They dance in circles in different directions.

Inside are the "whites", and women walk along the outer circle.

Africans blow trumpets and beat drums.

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Native hunters with spears near the burning bushes, waiting for prey.

Women of the Bayas tribe catch field grasshoppers near the bushes, for them it is a delicacy.

View of the native settlement.

Manioc plantation - the main food of the Bayas.

Women hoe the ground near the bushes.

They collect cassava leaves, they also go to eat.

Children collect leaves.

After 18 months, they dig up the cassava rhizomes, they are not deep in the ground.

They dig up the roots, put them in baskets.

Women put the baskets on their heads, go to the village with children.

Along the way, they meet domestic animals.

Then the rhizomes are cut and soaked in water so that the acid comes out of them.

In a few days, the hard ball soaks and is easily peeled.

Women clean the root.

Women are sitting in the hut.

They pound the roots in flour, collect with brooms, sift.

Flour is poured into boiling water and the dough is kneaded with a stick.

Bread is made from this dough

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Two native girls pound millet with long sticks in a wooden bowl.

A third girl approaches them.

They put the millet in a basket and go to wash it in the river.

There is a boat on the bank of the river, in it a man with a pole.

Boys run, jump into the water, the boat sails away.

The girls wash the millet in the water.

They also water and bathe the horses.

The man holds the horse.

The girls, having finished their business, begin to bathe.

A way to attract attention: the girl comes out of the water, limping.

The man brings the horse, puts the girl on it, leads.

Everyone goes home.

Children are running around in the village.

A boy and his mother approach a well, the mother lowers the vessel, collects water.

The girls bathe.

A couple in love sits by the shore, hugging.

Matchmaking.

The groom comes to the girl's father with his friend, who is negotiating

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The groom and his friend are talking to the bride's father at the bride's hut.

The girl and her mother are sitting there.

Jimta can only give 100 francs and 5 kids.

The father asks for 10 kids.

Negotiations are interrupted.

Jimta goes to his father to help him lower the price, leaves with a friend.

Two girls by the hearth, one rubs her stomach, goes to the mat, lies down, she feels bad.

The second helps her lie down.

Jimta's father smokes a long pipe, Jimta comes up to him, speaks.

They go to the girl's father.

Finally, the parties come to an agreement and cross their arms as a sign of the end of the negotiations.

Lunch at the hut.

Jimta goes to his father.

A friend carries a cup with a drink, Jimta drinks, passes it to another.

Wedding dance.

Residents gather at the tamtan.

Women come out.

Dancers' movements.

Jimta and the girl they are talking at the hut

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Port Arshabolt on the river Chari.

Poland along the high bank.

Boats are heading to the shore.

On January 1, a large sports festival is held here.

Inverted baskets mark the border beyond which spectators must be.

Natives walk, women pass.

Riders from the Sarasi tribe rush past the spectators on horses.

Javelin throwing.

The goal is a shield with a target.

Participants in the competition, spectators.

Freestyle wrestling.

Two wrestlers, a judge, spectators around.

The hardest thing is to get the prize, which is attached to the end of a pole greased with oil.

The natives try to climb, they should not help themselves with their knees.

Pushball.

Two women's teams play with a huge ball

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A boat with a hut in the middle is sailing along the river, with poles on the bow and stern.

Another boat.

A panorama of the shore.

A view of the rowers from the hut.

There is also a kitchen on the boat.

They eat on the go.

Pelicans above the water, in shallow water, on islands.

A group of pelicans.

Old earthen oxen, where marabou settle.

Ruins of an old settlement, stone walls.

A village, huts covered with palm leaves.

Children in front of the camera.

A stone fence of the village.

Fish is dried in each yard.

A boy turns the fish over in the sun.

A group of natives pull a hippopotamus out of the water, turn the carcass over.

They drag it along the ground.

More natives rush to help.

Colonial agents in cork hats approach.

They cut up the hippopotamus

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Map of the Belgian Congo.

On the banks of the Logone River near Archambolt are the original buildings of the Massai tribe.

The Massai kraal is a dome-shaped hut arranged in a circle.

The village is surrounded by a stone wall.

The huts reach 8 meters.

The entrance is covered with mats.

Dawn, the entrance opens, a man comes out, approaches another hut, hides in it.

Residents go to the hut, drive out a cow, kids.

A girl enters the dwelling.

Local mill-circle.

Women grind grain.

There are also calves.

Yard, a herd of kids runs out.

On the Logone River.

To catch fish, the river is blocked with poles.

The guys dive under the water with nets, go ashore.

A boat floats to the shore.

Children are sitting, a man carries a caught baby to them from the boat crocodile, lets it go on a string.

To protect the millet from water, ants and animals, it is put in a special hut with a hole at the top.

The native climbs up there on a ladder, gets the millet, puts it in a basket.

The Massai gather to sing.

The soloist starts a song.

They walk around the tamzan and sing.

Children and women join in the dance

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Map.

The Munding tribe.

Village.

Straw huts alternate with stone huts in the form of tents with holes in the upper part.

A woman comes out with a basket.

Dance of the Mundangs.

For the dance, special costumes are made, which represent different mythical images.

Preparation for the dance, the natives put on costumes, spin in them.

Only men put on costumes, women do not have the right to change clothes, they dance in their usual form.

Children and women look at a group of girls who go in the dance.

The girls' heads are shaved in an intricate way.

The men spin in costumes, sit on the ground.

Spectators, a tattoo on the skin of a woman

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In the North of Cameroon is the Sultanate of Fuldeig.

In front of the palace of Rey-Bubi, the main one among the sultans, there is a continuous movement.

Women with jugs on their heads, men with bervins are walking.

Natives are sitting.

The throne courtyard, where servants enter, bending before the sultan.

The sultan sits on a stone pedestal under a canopy.

Horsemen on horses covered with colorful blankets prance in front of Rey-Bubi.

Residents of the village.

They meet the sultan.

Residents bow, lie prostrate on the ground.

Riders, retinue.

The sounds of trumpets and horns announce that the sultan has arrived.

A demonstration of nobles before the sultan, they are riding horses.

Alley, road to the house.

Children are playing near the house.

River, ships are coming.

To the pier a ship approaches.

View of the Congo River