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Pemba Island (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/7A
Scope and Contents

145 x 180 mm. Showing a man in the ring with a bull. The caption continues: 'Close quarters: The bull has turned upon one of the matadors and charges.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Bull fighting in Pemba], 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/7B
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Showing a man in the ring with a bull. The caption continues: 'Close quarters: The bull has turned upon one of the matadors and charges.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Bull fighting in Pemba], 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/7C
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Showing a man in the ring with a bull. The caption continues: 'Close quarters: The bull has turned upon one of the matadors and charges.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/9
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing two men in the ring with a bull. They both hold one end of a cloth. The caption continues: 'If the bull shows signs of losing interest in the fight, the matadors grow more and more bold baiting him with their mats and coloured cloths,'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/10
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man being tossed by a bull. The caption continues: 'Got him! The angry bull tosses a matador lifting him clean off the ground with his powerful head. Matadors are not usually seriously hurt in this way.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/10A
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man being tossed by a bull. The caption continues: 'Got him! The angry bull tosses a matador lifting him clean off the ground with his powerful head. Matadors are not usually seriously hurt in this way.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/11
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a group of men in the ring. The caption continues: 'All the matadors surround and cheer one of their number who has been tossed by the bull. They make short sharp barking sounds.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bull fighting in Pemba, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/12
Scope and Contents

215 x 160 mm. Showing a group of men shielding their eyes from the sun. The caption continues: 'Spectators, all of who pay to ascend the platforms, take the liveliest interest in the proceedings. They will come many miles to see a good bull fighting.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chake Chake creek, 1905 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1905 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chake Chake: Lebratro (?) house, 1905 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 25/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Dates: 1905 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Children of Kojani Island, Pemba [i.e. Pemba Island], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/17A
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing three boys with a cow and her calf.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Children with cow and calf, East Pemba [i.e. Pemba Island], 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/17
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing three boys with a cow and her calf.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ferry service, Pemba Island, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/36
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing three canoes and attendants on the creek. The caption continues: 'A typical mangrove creek on the west side of Pemba where a ferry service for foot passengers is maintained by dug out canoes.'

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Giant heather (Phillipia mafiensis), Pemba, 1930 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/4/21
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. General view.

Dates: 1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Leaving Government House, 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070D/3
Scope and Contents

241 x 194 mm. Showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving Government House in a horse drawn landau.

Dates: 1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Loading a dhow with cloves at Pemba, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/19
Scope and Contents

239 x 190 mm. A view showing a line of workers carrying sacks of cloves towards a dhow lying in the mud of a tidal estuary at Chake Chake, Pemba Island.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Military lines at Ziwani [Pemba Island], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047A/12
Scope and Contents

202 x 152 mm. A view showing military buildings and quarters at Ziwani in the centre of Pemba Island.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pemba bullfight - A survival of the Portuguese occupation of East Africa, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/7D
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Showing a man in the ring with a bull. The caption continues: 'Close quarters: The bull has turned upon one of the matadors and charges.'

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Pemba bullfight - Spectators], 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/8
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing boys sat on the top of a small wooden stockade, which protects the 'chorus' of women chanting and clapping their hands to the accompaniment of a 'zomari' (an instrument somewhat resembling an oboe).

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Pemba bullfight - Spectators], 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/8A
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing boys sat on the top of a small wooden stockade, which protects the 'chorus' of women chanting and clapping their hands to the accompaniment of a 'zomari' (an instrument somewhat resembling an oboe).

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Pemba bullfight - Spectators], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2/8B
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing boys sat on the top of a small wooden stockade, which protects the 'chorus' of women chanting and clapping their hands to the accompaniment of a 'zomari' (an instrument somewhat resembling an oboe).

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pemba girl, 1930 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/23
Scope and Contents

150 x 2100 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pemba Island, 1946 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/2
Scope and Contents

Showing images of bull fighting and an Arab sword dance.

Dates: 1946 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pemba Island - children astonished to see Europeans on a remote east coast island, 1930 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/6/1/11/17
Scope and Contents

150 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Report on visit to Pemba, 1942 - 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/8/1
Scope and Contents

Fergus Wilson's copy of a report by Senior Agricultural Officer Davies on his visit to Pemba, 5-22 October 1942, with a few related papers.

Dates: 1942 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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