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In the heart of Bantuland; a record of twenty-nine years' pioneering in Central Africa among the Bantu peoples, with a description of their habits, customs, secret societies & languages

Campbell, Dugald, 1871-, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1922 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company; London, Seeley, Service & Co., ltd. · 4 pictures

A 1922 missionary account by Dugald Campbell, published in Philadelphia and London, recording his twenty-nine years of pioneering work among Bantu peoples of Central Africa and describing their customs and secret societies. The photographs are plain, documentary black-and-white views of village houses, cotton spinning, a dried tree after a grass fire, a royal drum, a group of hunters, and carved masks and a wooden figure, offering a designer straightforward ethnographic reference imagery with strong contrast and textured natural subjects.

Bantu-speaking peoples

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