Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Falls of the Tshopo River at sunset, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1980
Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Accompanying text reads, " Falls of the Tshopo River at sunset. The scaffolding holds fishing nets. During the rebellion, so many corpses were thrown in the river here that people did not eat fish for a month.".
- Collection
- Wyatt MacGaffey photographs
- Catalog date
- 1980
- Recorded places
- Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- MacGaffey, Wyatt
- Recorded subjects
- Natural landscapes
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2003-004, Item EEPA 2003-040034
Collection: Wyatt MacGaffey photographs