Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

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The caption to the left of the photograph continues: 'This one has several little vent holes. The clay covering is wearing off and showing the ancestral hair underneath, His necklace (Agira) is made of white metal'.

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'An oiled string fringe with loops of coloured beads in which blue predominates. Blue is a favourite colour amongst the Labwor. A drooping breast is considered here a sign of beauty'.

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92 x 66 mm. View of a lake taken from the rear of a dugout canoe.

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158 x 113 mm. Showing the Lake Albert flotilla before the completion of the P.S.S. 'Samuel Baker'. The flotilla, moored in a wide curving bay, consists of a small steam launch, the 'Keniaj' and two small sailing cutters (the 'James Martin' in the foreground).

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50 x 75 mm. Showing a man in a canoe navigating his way through a narrow part of the lake. There are empty canoes to his left and right.

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Showing a canoe at the edge of the lake.

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75 x 50 mm.

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140 x 100 mm. A general view of the lake and surrounding countryside, taken from a high aspect.

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75 x 50 mm. Showing three men in a canoe on the lake.

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'137-35-12' printed on bottom right corner.

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110 x 150 mm.

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102 x 77 mm. Showing the debouchment of the canal into Lake Victoria.

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A general view of part of the crater lake Kikerongo, near where Bell and Burton each shot a hippopotamus.

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140 x 80 mm. Showing an impenetrable mass of floating vegetable matter on Lake Kioga.

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148 x 105 mm. A view from the shore looking towards Lake Victoria with tall elephant grass in the foreground; exact location unidentified. The evacuation referred to was Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's decision to depopulate an area two miles wide and several hundred miles long on the shores of Lake Victoria in a largely successful attempt to eradicate the sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda which in some years previous to 1908 was killing 30 000 people a year.

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75 x 50 mm. Showing a parked automobile, with the sea visible in the background.

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75 x 50 mm. A general view of the landscape. Trees and bushes in the foreground, and the sea in the distance.

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215 x 166 mm. View of tall grass, shrubs and trees.

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An underexposed photograph showing a group of Lango men and women dancing.

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Showing a group of Lango warriors, their bodies painted with white markings.

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87 x 87 mm. Showing a group of Lango women (a Nilotic people inhabiting the Lango District in the Northern Province of Central Uganda) carrying their children on their backs in containers shaped like snails' shells.

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104 x 102 mm. glossy print.

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216 x 166 mm.