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Shambe (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Dinkas at Shambe, on the Upper Nile, 1935 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/213
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They have the most astonishing hair, which is bleached to a pale ginger colour. This they do by putting on a mud pack for a few weeks, which is soaked with cows urine. The most extraordinary part is that they manage to get the crinkles out of their hair'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Congo, Uganda, and Sudan 1935-36
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Dinkas at Shambe, on the Upper Nile, 1935 - 1936

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/214
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They have the most astonishing hair, which is bleached to a pale ginger colour. This they do by putting on a mud pack for a few weeks, which is soaked with cows urine. The most extraordinary part is that they manage to get the crinkles out of their hair'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Congo, Uganda, and Sudan 1935-36
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Dinkas at Shambe, on the Upper Nile, 1935 - 1936

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304N/215
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page continues: 'They have the most astonishing hair, which is bleached to a pale ginger colour. This they do by putting on a mud pack for a few weeks, which is soaked with cows urine. The most extraordinary part is that they manage to get the crinkles out of their hair'.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s / Congo, Uganda, and Sudan 1935-36
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Shambe, 1939 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/3/53
Scope and Contents

115 x 85 mm. A view of Shame taken presumably from a boat. There are many people stood watching.

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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / H.E. Hebbert collection / Photographs / Sudan
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The Sudd bank near Shambe, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/31
Scope and Contents

138 x 98 mm.

Dates: 1928
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Tymms collection on civil aviation / Photographs / First African mission

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