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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94 x 158 mm. glossy print with 63 x 108 mm. negative.

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116 x 82 mm. glossy print with 108 x 63 mm. negative.

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

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136 x 83 mm. A distant view showing porters resting by the roadside during a march. The location is possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan.

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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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115 x 115 mm. Showing a woman stood, hands on hips, smiling into the camera, with another woman stood a little further back. They both have shaved heads.

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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.

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135 x 85 mm. Showing the riverside village of Adok.

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115 x 85 mm. Showing men stood in front of a truck which has sacks stacked by it.

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205 x 152 mm. View looking down onto a section of a town (?Zomba or Blantyre) with wooded hills in the distance.

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115 x 85 mm. A view of a large building with a thatched and stepped roof, mostly obscured by a tree. There are smaller huts to the right.

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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101 x 74 mm. A view showing an Azande man making grass helmets in Doruma's compound in Jemhura, Bahr el Ghazal [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan].

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101 x 74 mm. A view showing an Azande man making grass helmets in Doruma's compound in Jemhura, Bahr el Ghazal [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan].

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101 x 74 mm. A view showing an Azande man making grass helmets in Doruma's compound in Jemhura, Bahr el Ghazal [possibly Bahr al Ghazal in Sudan].