Bredirij Bruce 
Belgian Congo File 
Aaguat 26, 1955 
nr, and Ifm. BJ^ce Bredin 
Oreeirnil©, Celanare 
Doiur Broc© and l^s. Bredins 
Pretty ®uc6 ti^e sa®© old S'fcoiy,**behiiid baod again witii isy premises* 
However, I did get tfee bits of Oongo h«sdiaraft into ®!?»r®5aian*8 
bands for delivery to you aainf the 0ree®ville address. As 1 have said 
before, there isn’t Euch of it, but it is in a laeasure reainieoent and 
reoreaent stive, ftie enclosed photo sboiiffl what there is in the oc* and 
carton sent this laorning. Two of the woven sets, a piece of bark cloth 
(rsther crude looking) for a back drop, and a bow are in the paper wri^jped 
eartOQj the other things are in the two foot square box. 
The bark cloth, woven aats, bow and airrom were obtained in Fa)pi.s, 
presi^bly raado by the Mangbetus. The. wooden din»«r (to tte 
face plaque (center), and the ivoiy h«nt«^n are frosi Leopol^Ue.^ TOe 
wooden imgB to the left— I taOte it to be a wosan— Is trm otaaleyville, 
said tne circular seat in the laiddl* is fro® a native village near ^tuaniga, 
The figures, wood sad ivory, cost about h50 francs (19,00) each, nm 
arrows about 2 francs apiece, the bow 1*5, the bark eloth and mats ^jout 
130 and the face plaque 110 francs. The ivory figurines and diwer, 
though started h^e fro® Le<^oldvill©, April 15, were terribly 
delayed. Th(^ landed hiMw ti*© very saaie dsy taat the freight ahi|st»ent 
from ihtebbe via Sairobi did. 
, our curator of ethnology, was mch 
■ cloth. This fee ‘ ^ 
by ti»s® objects, 
a little unusual 
along the lateral 
Itoen I picked up 
now timt t m 
m have so little 
He has ^ ^ . . ix,- 
because of the stas^ied decorations, he said with 
strips. Tliese rosettes Show faintly in the p}»tograph, 
these tblma, I felt eropJed, for space in our boxes bui 
back, I wish I*d gotten hme. So does Or. Rieger, for ^ 
of African handicraft in our collections. I turned over w hi® ^ther 
bow and five arrows that, the pygsies had made. are » smller in 
size than the Paulis ones. The pygsy arrows had no setal points and 
carried a pat#j of poisonous aaterHO. Just behind the sharply pointed 
wooden tip. This is a wise precaution,-sn aceident^ scraten . 
no ham} the poison Is not released teto a wound unless the arrow penetrates 
both skin and flesh. 
