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Lumbwa natives coming in to make ‘amani’, 1889-10-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/27

Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. Showing a large group of Lumbwa tribesmen seated in a semi-circle in front of the camera. James Martin, wearing a deerstalker and smoking his pipe, stands at the extreme left of the print. One of the Africans is presumably Menya Kisharia the chief with whom a treaty was made on this date but he has not been identified. Gedge describes the event in his diary for the day thus: ‘Chiefs came in and the ceremony of making peace was gone through after we had finished breakfast. This took 3 hrs. Two little puppies playing an important part, likewise some bones. Much talking was the order of the day . . . Made a treaty with the people here and gave them the Coys flag. Men and women came freely into camp so it really looks as if all fighting were at an end now. Took some photos in the afternoon of the people who were v. nervous. They got some shocks from the galvanic battery in the morning which astonished them into wholesome fear of us . . .’ LS/11.

Dates

  • Creation: 1889-10-13

Creator

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Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2014-05-30 09:50:15+00:00

Includes index.

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