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Head and shoulders portrait. Taken at Mangala on the Congo River (near Nouvelle Anvers). The caption reads: 'and his wife'. This is a reference to a photograph of a man on the same page.

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...

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...

Scope and Contents The caption below the photograph continues: 'They are wearing the Tamburu headdress which is only worn by the better class women and Chief's wives. The woman on the extreme right has an exceptionally well shaped head'.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 children's heads for the first...

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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60 x 70 mm. A photographic copy of a map of the Belgian Congo.

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60 x 70 mm. A photographic copy of a map of the Belgian Congo.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'Marire also lives at Ekibondo. Her skin is pale brown, and she has a most cheerful temperment [sic]. She has the same facial tatoos [sic] as Mora, an Ambudu girl at Legu I think she belongs to that tribe'.

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The caption to the right of the photograph reads: 'Marire leads a most carefree life, and could always be found comfortably stretched out watching the zombi cooking, or telling naughty stories to her girl friends'.

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Informal full-length portrait of Masaanado Aluba. In the distance a small thatched building can be seen. The caption at the bottom of the album page reads: 'Masaandao Alubu also lives at Megrindra. One morning I mixed her a cup of delicious breakfast chocolate; she took one mouthful, and promptly spat it out, - No studied insult, but just her natural way of showing how she disliked it'.

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Informal full-length portrait of Masaanado Aluba. In the distance a small thatched building can be seen. In the distance a small thatched building can be seen. The caption at the bottom of the album page reads: 'Masaandao Alubu also lives at Megrindra. One morning I mixed her a cup of delicious breakfast chocolate; she took one mouthful, and promptly spat it out, - No studied insult, but just her natural way of showing how she disliked it'.

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Informal head and shoulders portrait of Masaanado Aluba. In the distance a small thatched building can be seen. The caption at the bottom of the album page reads: 'Masaandao Alubu also lives at Megrindra. One morning I mixed her a cup of delicious breakfast chocolate; she took one mouthful, and promptly spat it out, - No studied insult, but just her natural way of showing how she disliked it'.

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Group portrait showing Mr. A. Verbeken, Directeur de l'Information pour Indigènes, with members of the circle. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Le 16 mars 1946 a été créé à Elisabethville sous l'égide du gouvernement, le cercle 'Léopold II, Travail et Progrès' pour les indigènes évolués. Voici Mr. A. Verbeken, directeur de l'Information pour indigènes, photographié avec les membres du cercle'. Photograph by E. Lebied.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Although they wear no clothes except a fongor (skin behind) they are very shy, and the men always hide their private parts between their legs'.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...

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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Informal head and shoulders portrait.

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Informal head shot.

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View of Malea's hair.

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Informal head and shoulders portrait.

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The Ituri Forest, Kivu region, Zaire.

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Head and shoulders portrait.

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Full-length portrait.

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Full-length portrait.

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...