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35mm neg. Bridesmaids washing and applying the red cam wood to their bodies.

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35mm neg. Bridesmaids washing and applying the red cam wood to their bodies.

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44 x 62 mm. Cicatrization on the back as well, as a close up of the Mbembe women's dress style.

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63 x 92 mm. An Mbembe woman arrives on her way to Nkambie market and chats with her young son who was very thrilled at the dancing. She did not have any 'dress' clothes.

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62 x 40 mm. Bafut vied with Laroku in the number of Jujus one found all over the place as well as the number of Medicine groves. Here under a shady tree is another sacred area with a large monolith of seven sided stone.

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62 x 40 mm. A scene of one of the numerous medicine groves around Bafut, one of the peculiar seven sided monoliths is seen at the junction of bush paths leading to the town.

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62 x 40 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. Menang Jujus on the road to Bamessing on their way to a Meeting.

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64 x 108 mm. Two little Message girls sit and gossip at market, they have all got long crooked walking sticks.

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62 x 40mm. Three message women with their necklaces of iron chatter at the market.

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84 x 56 mm. neg. and 114 x 84 mm. print. Two cheery little Mfumte ladies with their masses of nose sticks.

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56 x 84 mm. A pretty little Mfumte girl with her ring earrings, iron lip ornaments and necklaces.

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56 x 84 mm. A fullani milk and butter seller at Lassim. Came from the encampment about 10 miles away up on the mountains to the west of Lassim.

Scope and Contents 84 x 56 mm. Chindas drinking and discussing the affairs of the district in the courtyard of the Fon's palace. The Juju Man is seen on the right of the picture next to the man with the ceremonial headdress of white feathers, he is in his wooden mask and red cloak. He holds the position for a certain number of years (9) during which time he is fed and housed by the Fon, but must have no dealings with women. At the end of his term of office he is given a farm and a number of wives and holds a...

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Portrait of two women from the waist up.

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62 x 40 mm. The Mkpandi labourers making their thumb marks opposite their names on the paysheets as a receipt of receiving their pay.

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40 x 62 mm. 'Monica' a Banso woman of the R.C. Mission whose country name is Baati and in order to copy her 'white sisters' to her own satisfaction has allowed her hair to grow long.

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64 x 108 mm. After the sacrifice of the goat on the death of the Chief, a fowl is sacrificed and a feast held by the Murong Jujus and the old residents of Nsop - people who own a Mimbo Bush and are thus not strangers to the area. The Monolith in the Chief's compound is the scene of annual dances but has nothing to do with any sacrifices.

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62 x 40 mm. How mother goes to work, the basket suspended from her forehead and the baby on her shoulders. These women manage to carry really terrific weights.

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62 x 40 mm. The mother sits in the sun with her ailing child, she wonders what is the matter with him and as the native medicines have failed to benefit him she thinks someone is 'wishing him evil'.

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62 x 40 mm. We at last come to Mouambong, a typical Bakossi town, little clusters of huts in a forest clearing, then more trekking to another little cluster and so on for perhaps an hour or more. The walls of the huts are of wooden logs and the roof of palm fronds.

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62 x 40 mm. An hour after reaching the first 'suburb' of Mouambong we at last dragged ourselves into the main cluster of huts that composed the town, it was another half hour however before we climbed the last hill (seen in the background) to the rest house.

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56 x 84 mm. The high roofs of grass are used as a store by the inmates. All Pagans and farm bananas, colas and corn.

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62 x 40 mm. The Mungo Ferry with my carriers and loads on the return trek.

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62 x 40 mm. Loads going up the ferry ramps.