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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 266 Collections and/or Records:

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A debauched mission youth at Meridi, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/220
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...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A Dinka and his cow, 1960 - 1975

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/7/9
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1960 - 1975
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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A Dinka homestead, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/9/1/82
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1950 - 1969
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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A girl at Logwi, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/194
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1934
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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A halt by the way, Nile-Congo watershed, Bahr-el-Ghazal [? Bahr al Ghazal], 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/254
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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.

Dates: 1915
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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A kind of vegetable I ate at Logwi, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/490
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1934
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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A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/143
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/144
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A kuku girl near Kajo-Kaji, with a glass lip ornament and a giraffe hair necklace, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/145
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A Latuka and his natumu, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/171
Scope and Contents

Showing a scene from a death dance at Torit.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A mimic battle warding off evil spirits. Another preliminary to the dance, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/173
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...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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A pair of very forward females, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/65
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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A young Oxoriok girl at Liria, (S. Sudan), 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/135
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/180
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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)'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/181
Scope and Contents

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)'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Acholi girl], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/182
Scope and Contents

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)'.

Dates: 1934
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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Acholi girl near Lamarita, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/210
Scope and Contents

Showing a woman standing in very shallow water.

Dates: 1934
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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Adok, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/49
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135 x 85 mm. Showing the riverside village of Adok.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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Adok, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/50
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115 x 85 mm. Showing men stood in front of a truck which has sacks stacked by it.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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Aerial view of a town, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3051B/1
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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.

Dates: 1955
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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Akot, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/63
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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.

Dates: 1939 - 1941
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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Amuru men at Amadi, Bahr el Ghazel, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/216
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...
Dates: 1935 - 1936
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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An Azande artificier making grass helmets, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/151
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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].

Dates: 1915
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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An Azande artificier making grass helmets, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/152
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 1915
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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An Azande artificier making grass helmets, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/153
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 1915
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).