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A photograph of a typical indigenous field, planted with corn and beans.

A photograph of corn and cow pea on the ground while an indigenous woman sits on the ground near a basket of corn that was husked.

Corn & m'tama in back - trees and grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Corn & mango tree, way back - post may show in photo. Rather sandy land and peanuts planted with corn at times. Tricholaena rosea quite abundant here. Round native huts. Mango and Manihot trees. Have not seen fields of manihot. Peanut looks…

A photograph of corn and manihot on hilled up beds.

Nssoke - Here there are a lot of plantings of corn and m'tama. Shows path in fore, corn with native huts - tall grass in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

A photograph with corn in the foreground with open grassland.

A photograph of a corn field, which is situated above Amatongas forest. There are rolling hills in the background.

A photograph of a corn field, which is situated above Amatongas forest. There are rolling hills in the background.

A photograph of a corn field near the river bank. There is also echinochloa and papyrus.

Opposite side of track, looking over the corn fields. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Shows corn just coming in, hills on rolling open country. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows corn just coming in, hills on rolling open country - shows native veg. at same place [as previous image]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

A photograph that shows brush and ox team in the background in Bendula. The corn is loaded at this point.

A photograph of corn grown on the banks of Lualaba with Homer Shantz standing in the corn while there is sorghum in the background.

A photograph of a river bank with corn growing on it.

A photograph of corn soaked, pounded into hull, and laid out to dry. There are mortar baskets and pots around the corn with huts and indigenous people in the background.

A photograph of corn stubble cut off just below the lower ears, about 3 ft. high.

Native cultivation - corn, ant hill, large trees at the left. General appearance like Kindu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]