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205 x 138 mm.

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77 x 103 mm. One of the gunners with a draped skirt of white narrow red stripes and a broad purple band. He has a raffia hat surmounted with dark blue feathers and his sachet had a fringe of bells.

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104 x 64 mm. A young gunner with his feathered headdress and old brass studded flintlock gun.

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64 x 90 mm. Another gunner with his native made hat of dark blue cotton pulled out to form small tags or 'rays'. He also wears one of the thick ivory bangles so common among the men of the Bamenda Division.

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40 x 62 mm. This old warrior turned up complete with his gun, showing the goat hide shield to protect him against misfires. His manjong sword on its lizard skin covered sheath with a small bell attached to the wickerwork handles, a fly-switch and his drinking horn in his 'hip-pocket'.

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76 x 103 mm. Another gunner with his stoppered calabash powder box, a fullani sword, a fly switch and not a care in the world.

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76 x 103 mm. One of the gunners - Wonga - Fie Alakume - sees a joke either in the camera or the photographer! He is wearing one of the 'rayed' hats made entirely of cotton by the men in the Bamenda Division.

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197 x 135 mm. ‘Herschell Factory’ is written at bottom of page. See also Y3043NN/15.

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84 x 56 mm. The Hausa-chief below his yellow and red umbrella on a brass stand. The Hausa spectators in their white head dresses and coloured gowns.

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84 x 56 mm. The Hausa chief's orchestra - the trumpets make a noise very much like the bagpipes. Note the curved drum sticks.

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35 x 51 mm. neg. with 75 x 109 mm. print. A little Hausa dame at Batebo on Christmas Day with all her finery on. She used to be Galadema's lady but ran away from him and now is a lady of easy virtue and doing well.

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56 x 84 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. On arrival at Ngengenduse the usual Hausa orchestra turned up to welcome us. It consisted of three rogues who never did a bit of work but got their money by singing songs of praise to anyone they thought had money to give.

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62 x 40 mm. The noise this trio made was remarkable, the flutist blew as hard as he could, the drummer banged away and the old rogue who engineered the show yelled his hardest.

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56 x 84 mm. Hausa woman drummer dressed in red and silver nose ornament. The man repeats what she says and shouts adulations and flattery all the time to the chief or whoever is present if he is a 'big man'.

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56 x 69 mm. Avion, a Hausa lady of easy virtue who used to be so promiscuous in her choice of friends that the married women paid boys to attack her and remove an eye. She was an excellent photographer's model.

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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Taken en-route through French Cameroons.

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Taken en-route through French Cameroons.

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84 x 57 mm. "Name, Gang, District, Town?" The head man comes up first to give particulars and get his pay.

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84 x 57 mm. This is what you do: - the Headman being shown how to make his finger prints against his name as a receipt.

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77 x 97 mm. A view showing an African making vertical tapping cuts on a tree with a pruning knife attached to a bamboo pole.

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79 x 103 mm. A view showing an African making vertical tapping cuts on a tree with a pruning knife attached to a bamboo pole.

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200 x 132 mm. European (Holder) seated in centre.

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40 x 62 mm. The scaffolding rises as the apex of the roof is reached. The roofs, considering the materials, are beautifully symmetrical.