Photographer: Steppé, E.
Title: untitled (Deux jeunes garçons Batshioko).
Date: 1935.
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 24,1 x 18,1 cm.
Condition: very good.
Reference: ESIV1119/1.
Provenance: Collection family Carlo Lamote.
Extra: typed note with identification in French on verso. Congopresse 31.425/7.
Two young Batshioko boys return to their village at the end of their stay at the initiation camp, where they remained hidden after being circumcised. Upon their return, they are given a bow and arrow as a symbol of their transition into manhood
Location: Sandoa.
Province: Lualaba (<2015 former Katanga province).