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The inscription used for this photograph is archaic: “Sambo” is an offensive term used to describe a black person or a person of mixed race, particularly Black-Indian or Black-European individuals. The term originates in the early 1700s from the American Spanish word “Zambo” meaning a kind of “yellow monkey”. The term could also be related to the Kongo (a Bantu Language) word “nzambu” also meaning “monkey”. In 1899 Helen Bannerman published a children’s book “The Story of Little Black Sambo” the term “Sambo” was used as the name of a young boy who outwitted a group of hungry tigers.