Camma Man and Woman
This image shows the clothing styles, hair styles and jewelry of a Camma man and woman in the northern Loango Coast region. Du Chaillu described how "the 'Camma Country' begins to the south of Cape Lopez. . . and extends to the southward as far as the River Camma… and to the east for about fifty miles from the coast” (p. 221). "Camma" likely referred to the Nkomi people who speak the Bantu language of Myènè. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (c. 1831–1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first European to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of Africa's Central Interior region.
Image Title
Camma Man and Woman
RegID
SI-OB-633
Date
1850s
Title
Camma Man and Woman
Source
Paul B. Du Chaillu, Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa (London, 1861), p. 196. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--West Central North
Reproduced In
Paul B. Du Chaillu, Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa (London, 1861), p. 196.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
DuChaillu-196