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56 x 84 mm. neg. and contact print, and 75 x 109 mm. print. Chief William Nfoni with his hat of porcupine quills and leopard tooth necklace. Expelled from R.C.M. as when becoming Chief married father's wives.

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84 x 56 mm. neg.

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84 x 56 mm. neg. and contact print.

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40 x 62 mm.

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62 x 40 mm.

Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...

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62 x 40 mm. The Chum dancers rush into the ring whistling like birds whilst all spectators crouch.

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56 x 84 mm. Turtle or lizard design on an old woman's arm at Nbeno. It is formed by raised weals the operation being done in her youth. Fertility sign or totem.

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40 x 62 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. Ineffectual attempts at clearing the stream bank to stop tse-tse breeding. 500 yds. on either bank should be cleared. Cost?.?.?.

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40 x 62 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. Cloth merchants and sellers of jewellery made from tin and odd bits of brass do well in this thriving Hausa town.

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62 x 40 mm. The pagan girls cannot resist the bright colours of the cloths laid out to lure them and do all they can to become the possessor of a yard or so which they drape round their shoulders.

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76 x 89 mm. neg. and 84 x 114 mm. print. The girls of the area seem to cultivate different hair styles, this young lady favours the severe style in a straight line from the top of the forehead to the ears with a small triangle in front.

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84 x 56 mm. The Juju man is seen between the two chindas in their ceremonial regalia. His garb is clearly seen and consists of a deep red gown reaching to his knees and a wooden mask carved as a grotesque face stuck on top of his head. The Mimbo is poured from the long necked calabashes into the artistically worked earthenware pot.

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62 x 40 mm. A compound scene so typical of Mbaw. Heat, dirt, grime, disease and nothing to do all day.

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62 x 40 mm. Ngam - A Tarantula. It has powers of judging the evil one and is in many cases consulted, the man who understands what it says is called Ngangam in Banso. Four pieces of banana tree trunk are placed round the hole leading to the lair of Ngam. Then pieces of split bamboo representing the names of the suspected persons are put in the space radiating from the hole.

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62 x 40 mm. A corner of the village with the excited groups meeting to discuss the arrival of the Doctor.

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84 x 57 mm. The Old Bailey at Mouambong - the Native Court House.

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40 x 62 mm. neg and 79 x 111 mm. contact print. Close-up of the little 'kilts' the girls wear - this is the fashionable and much prized dress of the ladies of the Mbem area.

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40 x 62 mm. neg and 79 x 111 mm. contact print.

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The caption reads: 'Adverse (my mongrel dog) just going in on the extreme right'.

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60 x 42 mm. We cross a stream by means of a derelict canoe as there was no bridge or tree trunk, and enter a bamboo forest en route Bole from Mbonge.

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85 x 58 mm. neg. and contact print. The carriers crossing the Nsungli plateau on the way home.

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62 x 40 mm. The excitement rose as the drums boomed out the beats of the Samba and the Kebais whirled and gyrated faster and faster in company with the lesser beings who mingled with them.