Scope and Contents 99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps:'Towards the end of the low-water season, small tree-trunks and great supporting posts are fixed upright amongst the rocks and broken water at the falls ... Upon these are built elaborate stagings, lashed with forest creeper ropes, and stretching far out across the tumbling rapids from both banks. Six or ten feet beneath the staging, according to the height of the water, are suspended conical or bell-shaped basket...

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99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

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99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

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98 x 75 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

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96 x 73 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

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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The caption below the photograph continues: 'It is collapsable [sic] like an opera hat'.

Scope and Contents Showing four women standing in a line. The caption below the photograph continues: 'Niapu is one of the three most important Mangbetu Sultanis. They looked very sour when Niapu told them to come and pose for me'.An additional note on the top of the album page reads: 'The MANGBETU Tribe live on the northern edge of the Eturi Forest in the Belgian Congo. Their chief characteristic is the deformation of the skull which they attain by binding the childrens heads for the first year to...

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In the Ituri Forest, Kivu region, Zaire.

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 trafficcontroller employed by Otrace (Office d'Exploitation des Transports Coloniaux) speaking into the telephone from his office at N'Dele. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Dans le cabine de 'dispatching' de la Station de N'Dele, à Léopoldville, voici un des employés indigènes de l'Otrace (Office d'Exploitation des Transports Coloniaux) qui contrôlent le trafic sur le chemin de fer de Matadi'. Photograph by A. Da Cruz.

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105 x 85 mm. A general view of the foliage.

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101 x 79 mm. A view showing frog's nest on the upper side of the leaf. The caption on the reverse of the print reads 'Eggs hatched in mass of white froth high above streams. The frothy mass is their means of protection. When tadpoles sufficiently developed they fall off into the water beneath'.

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94 x 76 mm. A view showing frog's nest on the upper side of the leaf. The caption on the reverse of the print reads 'Eggs hatched in mass of white froth high above streams. The frothy mass is their means of protection. When tadpoles sufficiently developed they fall off into the water beneath'.

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The typed below the photograph reads: 'These two girls obviously had some connection with the deceased, and were waiting about round the grave with painted faces, and hang dog expressions'.

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On the western slopes of the Ruwenzori mountains.

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The caption below the photographs reads: 'This little man standing beside a Bangwa of normal height, is more likely to be a pigmy thana dwarf. He is wearing his bark cloth in the Bangwa style'.

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Carrying Powell's baggage from Buburu to Sikoru on the Ubangi River. The caption continues: 'The men are much too lazy to make good carriers'.

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Showing a woman's hairstyle. A caption below reads: 'Lobula natives have shaved heads all but a little pig tail'.

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Showing a woman's hairstyle.

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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Head and shoulders portrait.

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Head and shoulders portrait.

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Profile from the waist up.

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A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.