c.1935 - Man adorned with extensive gold jewellery and swords at a festival in present day Côte d'Ivoire. Photographed by Vernon McKay

c.1950s- Yoruba Sango worshipper from Oyo, Nigeria. Photographed by Pierre Verger

c.1920 - Postcard of a young woman with a braided hairstyle and studded ear piercings in Stanleyville (Kisangani), present day Democratic Republic of Congo. Source - Icharta

1958 - Photographs capturing initiation festivities amongst Kabye people in Togo.

c.1930-1939 - Young Igbo woman and her child, photographed in the eastern region of Nigeria.

c.1900-1910 - Four young men from Luanda, present day Angola

Une femme Porogne, région du fleuve Sénégal, Mauritanie 1959

c.1890-1904 - Batende man from Bolobo, present day Democratic Republic of Congo

Kikuyu women Braiding man's hair while he holds monkey J.T. Junior, Kenya, 1909-1911

Baoulé portrait rings from Pokoukro, 1971