Africa (continent)
Found in 20097 Collections and/or Records:
A Korama hunter using bow with poisoned arrows, 1900
115 x 159 mm. Showing a Korama hunter posed in the act of drawing his bow.
A Korama pagan, 1900
114 x 159 mm. A full-length profile portrait of a Korama youth standing in a field. The boy is wearing a ragged cloth tunic and has his hair shaved close at the front and arranged in long strands behind.
A Korama Village, 1900
160 x 114 mm. A view looking down on a small Korama village, with ploughed earth in the foreground. The print shows clearly the layout of the village as described by Meek (Meek 1931, p.177). The huts are circular, of mud, and with thatched roofs, and are grouped around a central compound. At the side of the village nearest the camera is a large family granary, a mud building about ten feet high raised on bricks to keep out damp.
A Korama water carrier, 1900
112 x 158 mm. Showing a Korama woman with a circular waterpot resting on a woven cushion on her head.
A Kraal at foot of immense boulder, 1890
Showing thatched huts scattered among boulder strewn ground with a steep, smooth rockface in the background. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken in early August.
A Kruboy’s initiation, Okooque, 1870 - 1889
200 x 135 mm.
A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936
The caption on the album page reads: 'The Kuku Tribe live in the South West corner of the Sudan, almost overflowing into the W.Nile Province of Uganda. The girls are good lookers, and wear a very striking dress, consisting of - A broad girdle of dark red beads, and hanging down behind a small tail or brush of string, neatly bound at the stump with small beads. In front they have a loop of chain'.
A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936
The caption on the album page reads: 'The Kuku Tribe live in the South West corner of the Sudan, almost overflowing into the W.Nile Province of Uganda. The girls are good lookers, and wear a very striking dress, consisting of - A broad girdle of dark red beads, and hanging down behind a small tail or brush of string, neatly bound at the stump with small beads. In front they have a loop of chain'.
A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936
The caption on the album page reads: 'The Kuku Tribe live in the South West corner of the Sudan, almost overflowing into the W.Nile Province of Uganda. The girls are good lookers, and wear a very striking dress, consisting of - A broad girdle of dark red beads, and hanging down behind a small tail or brush of string, neatly bound at the stump with small beads. In front they have a loop of chain'.
A Labwor, 1935 - 1936
The caption below the photograph continues: '[obscured] ...at Keru. [obscured] ...make the most beautiful [obscured]... spears in Africa [? obscured] ... only a stone...[obscured]'
A Labwor boy, 1935 - 1936
Informal head and shoulders portrait. The caption below the photograph continues: 'He has probably had a piece [sic] of ear cut off as a punishment for loosing a head of cattle he has been herding. This is only supposition'.
A Labwor man carries a message in a split stick inserted into the vent hole of his chignon, 1935 - 1936
The caption to the right of the photograph continues: '...his hands must be absolutely free in case he has occasion to use his spears. Note the disc shaped knife on his wrist. This is called - Abul'.
A Labwor man carries a message in a split stick inserted into the vent hole of his chignon, 1935 - 1936
The caption to the right of the photograph continues: '...his hands must be absolutely free in case he has occasion to use his spears. Note the disc shaped knife on his wrist. This is called - Abul'.
A 'lady doctor', Bamenda, 1937-03
56 x 84 mm. A 'lady doctor' - an old woman who specialises in Circumcisions. She attended hospital to see the White Man's method but thought her own was easier and quicker.
A lady of Laroku, 1940-11-13
45 x 39 mm.
A Lamu woman, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
150 x 202 mm. A studio portait of a Lamu woman wearing a patterned dress and carrying a brass vase on her head.
A large message drum at Atanakea (Mangbetu village), 1935 - 1936
Showing Powell standing beside a message drum. The caption below the photograph continues: 'This drum is carved out of one peice [sic] of wood; it has a long narrow opening at the top, and the inside is quite hollow. All the country round here is low lying swampy forest and the climate consequently hot and sticky. I usually wore a sarong (Kikoi) which proved a comfortable and cool dress for walking'.
A large mud grain store, typical of the Nyamay [Nyimang], 1952
154 x 111 mm. glossy print with copy and 83 x 56 mm. negative.
A large old female Okapi, 1913
102 x 79 mm. A view showing the dead Okapi with Pygmy trackers standing in the background. This was Christy's second okapi, shot in the Ituri Forest near Beni.
A Latuka and his natumu, 1935 - 1936
Showing a scene from a death dance at Torit.
A leather cumiband, with a metal fringe called Alau, which is sometimes worn by the Labwor men, 1935 - 1936
A leather cumiband, with a metal fringe called Alau, which is sometimes worn by the Labwor men, 1935 - 1936
A lecture on the use of steam engine to students at the Higher College, 1947
A leopard shot by the writer at Kissokwe, 1902
60 x 105 mm. Showing Westgate with a leopard lying at his feet.
A lesson in English at the Epworth Mission, Salisbury [i.e. Harare], 1954 - 1967
Showing an African teacher and pupils during an English lesson.