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Casimir Zagourski & Conan Doyle
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Casimir Zagourski (1880 – 1941)
An outstanding photographic reportage from the
Twenties and Thirties which brings back the memory of ways of living, ceremonies, adorned
bodies of an Africa that can aptly be defined as ‘lost’.
These extraordinary, unpublished pictures, taken with great technical skill and with a
sense of great dignity of the people portrayed, constitute a monument of the African
continent as it was.
Casimir Ostoja Zagourski (1880 – 1941) was the first professional photographer to
travel throughout the interior of Congo and visited also the neighbouring countries,
Tchad, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa.
During his long stay in Africa he took hundreds of pictures, 500 of which, divided in two
series on different tribes, build up to a unique historic and ethnographic survey.
His forays into the depths of the African continent took him into the most remote villages
of the Kuba, Mangbetu, Bwaka, Tutsi, Masai etc. where he took unprecedented pictures of
great ethnographic interest.
He documented, for example, ceremonies (initiation, circumcision, excision, masks dances
etc.), the great African creativity in body ornament (from scarification to hair dresses,
from jewellery to lip plugs), clothes and all utilitarian objects places in their
appropriate cultural context (musical instruments, shields, stools, knives, containers
etc.)
Contents
African Beauties
Photos By Casimir Zagourski
Ecuador Province (Belgian Congo)
Ritual
excision of young girls in the Mbouaka tribe. The crudeness
of the means used to operate renders some scenes almost unbearable to see.
Eastern Province -
Maniema
The people of Maniema were former
cannibals.
Bakumu women
Bakumu men
Bakumu men and musicians
Mongelima tribe
The Crime of the Congo
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction
How the Congo Free State Came to Be
Founded
The Development of the Congo State
The Working of the System
First Fruits of the System
Further Fruits of the System
Voices from the Darkness
Consul Roger Casement's Report
King Leopold's Commission and its
Report
The Congo After the Commission
Some Catholic Testimony as to the
Congo
The Evidence Up to Date
The Political Situation
Some Congo State Apologies
Solutions
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