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A portrait, from the waist up, of a girl with supurating cicatrization.

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The caption continues: 'It grows on a creeper and tastes like a sweet potato'.

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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'.

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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'.

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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'.

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Showing a scene from a death dance at Torit.

Scope and Contents Showing members of the Latuka Tribe at a death dance, Torit. The caption below the photograph reads: 'The Latuka men made a cut on their right shoulder for every man they have killed and on the left for each woman. Since they have come under British Administration this custom has fallen into disuse. A prision warder at Torit recently had the occasion to shoot several prisoners who were escaping. On the day of the trial he was absent from court, and eventually found in his compound...

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The caption to the right of the photograph continues: 'The young girls of this tribe wear sporrans of metal tubes, which can always be heard jingling when the girls are a long way away. It sounds very pleasant'.

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A close-up of the body of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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A full-length portrait of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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A close-up of the body of an Acholi woman. The caption on the album page reads: 'The Acholi girls wear just one single length of chain about 3 inches long in front. Taken at or near Lamarita, Sudan. (Acholi Mts)'.

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Showing a woman standing in very shallow water.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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Showing a man wearing a hat. The caption below the photograph continues: 'I was told that the men wore these long before the European came into their country'.

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The caption on the album page continues: 'This tribe are sometimes known as Lokoiya. This girl was glistening all over with oil and red ochre'.

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The caption on the album page continues: 'This tribe are sometimes known as Lokoiya. This girl was glistening all over with oil and red ochre'.

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The caption on the album page continues: 'This tribe are sometimes known as Lokoiya. This girl was glistening all over with oil and red ochre'.

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Showing Bari women in the neighbourhood of Juba.

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Showing Bari women in the neighbourhood of Juba.

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Showing Bari women in the neighbourhood of Juba.

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Showing Bari women in the neighbourhood of Juba.

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78 x 118 mm.

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92 x 143 mm.

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112 x 110 mm. glossy print.

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A posed head and shoulders portait.