Photographer: Dandoy, Charles (Cdt).
Title: untitled (Une jeune fille Muhema).
Date: 1949.
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 25,1 x 18,1 cm.
Condition: very good.
Reference: CDV0526/1.
Provenance: French collection.
Extra: typed note with identification in French on the verso. Congopresse 23.62/1.
A young Muhema girl from the Bandiyango chiefdom in the Bunia region. The Bahema are a people of Nilotic origin who settled southwest of Lake Albert..
Teritory: Bunia.
Province: Ituri (the former Orientale Province.
Commandant Charles Dandoy, of the 3rd companion of the Force Publique, was stationed successively at Kongolo and Kabinda. One can image that at the end of his military career, in 1947, Dandoy offered his services to Congopresse, the press (and propaganda) organ of the colony; in any case, his portfolio of photos ended up in the Inforcongo collection.