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64 x 108 mm. Bali -Kumbat woman with her little sporan of grasses and the little grass tail at the back [and carrying a woven basket on her head].

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62 x 40 mm. Clay pot made by the potters of Bamassi, the women are the best artists in this work. Note the snake design, these pots sell for about 1/-.

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62 x 40 mm. The earthernware pot sellers from Bamassi. The typical Banso people strolling about, the girls with their waist strings 'Aggedsrs' and the red cloth draped in front 'Teh'. In their hands their raffia shopping baskets, very fine raffia work is done in the area. The effect of cheap Japanese cottons is seen in the hideous garb of the men and women who are mostly mission people and consider themselves very superior to what they call 'The Bush woman'.

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60 x 93mm. Fez shaped Bamenda cap in blue and white. [Fig. VII in West African Caps.]

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68 x 95 mm. The 'rayed' cap of white cotton with blue rays. [Fig. X in West African Caps].

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56 x 91mm. A 'rayed' cap with the rays made in such a way that they lie flat. [Fig.XI in West African Caps].

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76 x 103 mm. A Bamenda cap shaped like the modern chef's cap, the lower part is of raffia and the crown of blue-black feathers. [Fig.V in West African Caps].

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61 x 98 mm. A fez shaped cap in blue and white cotton [Fig.VIII in West African Caps].

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69 x 87mm. A cotton cap in blue and white with the tied fillet and the knot behind [Fig. IV in West African Caps].

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65 x 81mm. A fez shaped cap with the crown band and tied fillet.

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60 x 88 mm. A rayed cap with the crown band and the tied fillet of the Egyptians [Fig. IX in West African Caps].

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40 x 62 mm. The owner of another pattern of hat crown in blue and white enjoying 'one for the road'.

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40 x 76 mm. Another pattern of hat crown. Crowns were originally somewhat like a Persian cap or Fez - almost the blood-brother of the red velvet cap of maintenance of the English Kings. Caps of special shape, Fez-like or like that of a Chef are today still the sign of Royalty among the Pagan Tribes of the Bamenda Division. The cloth caps with cloth 'spikes' may be an imitation of the radiated or rayed crowns of ancient Egypt.

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62 x 40 mm. Purchasers at the gown dept. at Bamenda market. Women are from Bamenda N'Kwele. Only after marriage do they wear brass on the waist strings and mud on the hair.

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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64 x 103 mm. A Bande woman with a peculiar ear ornament consisting of a porcupine quill cut short and a small pendant of beads hanging from it in front of the lobe. She also as well as small twigs and blades of grass has a garland of leaves about her neck to indicate that one of her relations has given birth to twins.

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62 x 40 mm. A young hunter of Banso with his home-made Cross Bow and arrows, these apparently were copied from the type used by the Portuguese when they discovered the West Coast.

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53 x 42 mm. A Banso mat maker passes along one of the hillside paths to the market. He is dressed in the traditional 'kilt' and by holding his spear over his right shoulder takes the weight of the mats. On the hillside is one of the square roofed houses of Banso, only the Fon and the high Fais are permitted to have oblong roofed houses.

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A report on Banso, a district of the Cameroons, including a map. There is no indication as to the terms of reference of the report or for whom it was made, although the index is headed 'Banso re-assessment report'. At the end of the report is a range of appended material.

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62 x 40mm. Banso door.

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40 x 62 mm. Three ladies in the haberdashery department have an altercation with the local Mr. Selfridge. Bargaining is brought to a fine art when the seller adds 200% to the retail price and the buyer wants the goods at 200% under wholesale price.

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40 x 62 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. Daddy takes mother to the local beer house - known as pito houses and run by the husbandless Hausa ladies. People of all ages drink the strong beer.

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62 x 40 mm. A Bororo woman, carrying her child in the usual Bororo position shocks the cloth seller by her valuation of his goods. The argument as to price waxes fast and furious but is all part of the game and the sellers would feel hurt if the buyer paid the original price asked for the goods. The bargaining is part of the fun though to witness it one would think that a fight would develop at any moment.