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51 x 35.5 mm. Photographer unknown, possibly A.G. Cooke.

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51 x 41 mm. More turbulent than Y304P/3. Photographer unknown, possibly A.G. Cooke.

Scope and Contents Bound volume 'for Private Circulation only' of 50 pages of typescript reproduced on thin card, illustrated by photographs, measuring 105 x 60 mm, taken (with the exception of plate 1) by the writer. All are dated and, in most cases, timed. The captions have been amplified in some cases from the text of the diary.This book is the record of a car journey, February-March 1928, when he went on leave by driving from Kano to Mombasa via French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, the...

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A caption on the album page reads: 'I met this Orange[?] man in the Eturi forest in the Congo near Mumbasa. He has a wig of monkies hair'. Met on trek from M'bogo to Iruma in Upper Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'At Gabrui'.

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51 x 41 mm.

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38 x 30 mm. Photographer unknown, possibly A.G. Cooke.

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50 x 95 mm. Showing a girl stood posing for the camera.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'The girls at Ekibondo played single stringed instruments like this. It is rather like a bow, and by altering the pressure of the teeth on the wood and twanging at the same time, they could play quite pleasing little ditties. When a number were playing together it was most effective'.

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Northeastern Zaire.

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The caption reads: 'My Gombe lady carriers from Burburu to Sikoru wearing grass skirts, which swing like kilts'.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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A caption on the album page reads: 'I met this Orange[?] man in the Eturi forest in the Congo near Mumbasa. He has a wig of monkies hair'. Met on trek from M'bogo to Iruma in Upper Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Batwa (pigmies) in the Eturi Forest'.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Mobira. Near Irumu N.E. Congo'.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Mobira. Near Irumu N.E. Congo'.

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One of a three photographs showing head shapes. The caption at the bottom of the album page reads: 'Three extremely well shaped Mangbetu heads. (Bottom Bangwa boy.) The scar caused by the binding is very noticeable in the top right photograph [Y304N/53]. All the Mangbetu have this scar'.

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One of a three photographs showing head shapes. The caption at the bottom of the album page reads: 'Three extremely well shaped Mangbetu heads. (Bottom Bangwa boy.) The scar caused by the binding is very noticeable in the top right photograph [Y304N/53]. All the Mangbetu have this scar'.

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112 x 157 mm. A view showing the severed head of a giant hog; 'the grotesque whitish eye warts and the characteristic erectness of the bristles of the coat are well seen'. Photograph by C.A. Reid.

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 Powell's canoe being unloaded on the shore of the Ubangi River.

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'He is the Sultani of Medje, and paramount Chief of the Mangbetu'.

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Between the Ubangi and Congo (Zaire) rivers (formerly the Belgian Congo). The caption reads: 'Two days through flooded forest pushing our little canoes through the undergrowth, and under roots of huge trees'.