Details - Hunting & other sketches in Central Africa, the Congo, Kwilu, & south west coast district

Hunting & other sketches in Central Africa, the Congo, Kwilu, & south west coast district

Title

Hunting & other sketches in Central Africa, the Congo, Kwilu, & south west coast district

Title Variants

Alternative: Hunting and other sketches in Central Africa, the Congo, Kwilu, & south west coast district

Alternative: Original sketches of the Congo, 1884-88

By

N'zau, Bula.

N'zau, Bula. , Travel and adventures in the Congo Free State and its big game shooting
Smithsonian Field Book Project.

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1884-1888

Notes

The title, provided by Bailey, appears in ms. pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper of the album.

Most of the images have captions supplied in ms. pencil or ink.

The hand-drawn, colored map has the title: Survey from Mussabe to N'Kula Maceilo including Luemme R. and country on north bank. Red lines show routes taken by Captn. H.P. Bailey Capt. 1st Oct. 1885.

Some of the drawings were later reproduced in Bailey's book, Travel and adventures in the Congo Free State and its big game shooting.

Digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project.

Collection of sketches, watercolors, and photographs by Henry P. Bailey (who wrote under the pseudonym Bula N'zau), depicting hunting scenes, landscapes, portraits, and ethnographic materials. The items in the album were created or collected by him during his travels in Central Africa.

Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries).