Mounza, king of the Mombuttous (tribe of Sudan), headdress of a bun covered with a...

Mounza, king of the Mombuttous (tribe of Sudan), headdress of a bun covered with a cylindrical top cap adorned with parrot feathers, a crescent-shaped copper plate attached to the forehead, around the neck, a collar of copper slats and on his arms and dowels are fasteners many copper rings and cylinders, as a scepter, he branched the cemeterre of his tribe, a species of copperate sickle; next to his throne, 2 gueridons loads of cola nuts (kola), dried bananas and cassava porridge, etched after the drawing of Emile Bayard, illustrating a voyage to the heart of Africa, in 1868-1871, by Dr. George Schweinfurth, published in “” Round the world”” 1874, under the direction of Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection.