Belgian Congo (1920-1929)

Belgian Congo.

A village, a native is beating a tom-tom.

A girl comes out of a hut, her face is tattooed, her hair is styled in an intricate hairstyle.

A local blacksmith is working, his assistants are blowing bellows.

He is forging some kind of instrument in the form of a sickle.

A boat with a water wheel is floating down the river, blacks in European suits are waving at him from the embankment.

Palm trees are swaying in the wind.

A sand hill is crumbling.

Wagons with gravel are coming.

A native is beating a tom-tom.

Flocks of flamingos are flying up over the water, a waterfall.

A signpost in a village, a traffic controller at a post with a sign "Buta" and Iruumu".

A car with an official arrives in the village.

A military school, cadets run out.

A preacher speaks from the balcony of a house.

Everyday activities in the village.

Dancing men and women.

The car with the official drives, stumbling, the residents help to move it from its place.

The governor's residence

National ritual dance with feathers.

Men dance with spears.

Attack of one tribe on another.

Dragging women from a hut, a native covers himself with a shield, his leg gets caught in a trap.

The hut is burning, natives are running around with spears.

Buffaloes in the field are running from the fire.

A sorcerer takes out a cockerel, drips something into its beak, cuts off several feathers, reads a spell.

Cripples on crutches, sick, probably with leprosy, go to the sorcerer for healing.

Ritual dances with sticks, a native beats a tam-tam.

Dance with palm leaves, skins, amulets of the dancers.

Long native boats with a large number of rowers, ships are moving on the water.

A woman on the shore with a net.

An attack of one tribe on another from boats.

Soldiers are shooting.

Soldiers are walking through the jungle with weapons in their hands, a dead native falls.

Wounded residents, a dead body in the water.

Predators are hovering in the air, a hyena is wandering, stretching out its muzzle.

Animal world: leopard, lions, elephants, tapirs.

A ceremonial gathering of the population to perform the ceremonial rite of circumcision of boys.

Circumcision of the flesh.

Drums are beating, dance

Procession with a boy.

Fight between two tribes.

Some shoot from bows.

A herd of elephants eats leaves, the inhabitants drive them away.

Ritual dance of girls.

Hippopotamuses in the water.

View of the village, the river.

Animals swim, come to the shore.

Steam from the water.

A lost place, remains of animal bones.

A native is sucked into a swamp

Fire in the night.

Morning, a soldier comes to the village.

A white European in a helmet strokes a duck, a native woman warns him of danger, he goes up the mountain.

The natives surround his hut.

The white man makes his way through the jungle, he is accompanied by a native woman.

The natives pursue him.

The natives with spears walk across the savannah