77 x 99 mm. A view showing an African tapping a rubber tree with the 'Victoria Knife' an implement with a long, curved blade.

40 x 62 mm. Fai Ndzendzen dressed in his usual attire, kilt and hat which is of a special pattern and no other man can wear a similar hat. Title hereditary and is one of the most important men in the country. He is the Senior Kebai of the Yemulong (House of the inner Mulong Society with very limited membership) -See Banso Notes No.I. - Necklace of leopard teeth, a Royal insignia.

40 x 62 mm.

40 x 62 mm. Fai O Shube the next in seniority to Fai Ndzendzen.

40 x 62 mm. Fai Tankum, the next in seniority to Fai Ndzendzen and so he wears the insignia of Royalty in the shape of a necklace of leopard teeth.

40 x 62 mm. A farmer crosses the Mungo River to Mbonge with his wheelbarrow on his head rather than pay the ferry charge.

62 x 40 mm. The husband, having agreed that there is some grounds for suspicion as to who is causing this illness of his child, goes and arranges with Ngangam the witch doctor who understands the actions of Ngam the Tarantula. They then arrange the price for the work of Ngangam and proceed to the spot where the spider lives.

62 x 40 mm. The father is then called and the ailing child shown to him, one of his older wives looks on in an interested manner. She assumes the stooping posture that all wives assume in the presence of their husbands or a superior person.

75 x 96 mm. A view showing a block of five-and-a-half year old rubber trees.

62 x 40 mm. The decision of the spider having been made known and the wife having been shown to be the evil one and one who was trying to hurt her child so as to make her husband think it was some of his other wives and so cause him to get rid of them, she is flogged and driven from the compound by her irate husband.

64 x 108 mm. A flute player with his hood of blue velvet embroidered with red silk, and the gown of many hues with native designs. He had on the ivory bangle worn by all the 'big men'. The flute is played with one finger at the base to control the tones and attached to it is a complicated knot of what looked like Tie-tie grass.

62 x 40 mm. A Chinda of the Fon parading through the market carrying 'Kekeng' (a certain tree with long leaves on the receipt of which the reciprocant must go immediately to the Fon) which means all must attend a given spot to hear News the Fon wishes to tell. This is how news regarding all matters is passed to the people. On this occasion it was to hear that war existed between Britain and Germany.

62 x 40 mm. Whilst awaiting the arrival of the Chief Commissioner, the Fon sat under his umbrella in the Old Market whilst the Chindas danced the Samba in the distance. Between the Chindas and the Fon danced the Kebai and here Fai Ndzendzen is seen prancing up to salute the Fon. The other Fais swing their posteriors to a constant chant of 'Oooh-OOOO'.

40 x 62 mm. A forest clearing where travellers sleep - the bamboos laid on the ground keep the jujus and animals away as they have been blessed by a juju man.

103 x 78mm. A view showing a group of four-year old rubber trees in a 450 acre plot.

62 x 40 mm. Fulani cattle on the mountains at Kishong north of Banso. The cattle resemble highland cattle seen in Scotland but have a hump on their backs.

62 x 40 mm. A typical Fulani encampment, the little beehive shaped huts of grass over the framework of twigs and the doors all facing to the leeward. Behind are the sweeping mountains.

62 x 40mm. Discussing price of the cattle with a prospective purchaser. They are good business men despite their polished manners and shyness.

40 x 62 mm. Most of the older women were dressed as this one - a chief's daughter - in their finery with a bunch of leaves at the back.

62 x 40 mm. Shortly after our arrival a child died in the town, the body was covered with cam wood and laid out in front of the mother's house on bamboo whilst the elder people sat around the native bier. They cried and kept up a long toneless chant whilst shaking iron rings with leopard tooth shaped bells attached. As one tired he or she would retire and leave another to ring the bells whilst he or she did a shuffle dance on their own.

62 x 40 mm. The child lies surrounded with kola nuts and ground nuts as well as bits of guinea corn signifying the young life that has departed. Behind is seen a man with a basket shaker in which are a number of dry seeds and from which he keeps up a constant rattling noise - the old lady kneeling behind the corpse has one of the iron rings with the tooth shaped attachments which jingle when shaken. All are covered in cam wood.

62 x 40 mm. The father of the bereaved wife arrived on the scene whilst a youth in the shade of a hut started to point out that the mother had given birth to four children and two had died which was apparently a significant point and one which was dealt with later on.

62 x 40 mm. The husband commenced a harangue stating that he was convinced of the evil in his wife's belly and wanted his dowry back, when he would return to his own country and never see the wife again.

62 x 40 mm. Meanwhile two of the old mourners sat aside with their rattles of iron, too overcome to play them, and wept. Whether at the death of the child, the suggested Juju in the wife or the accusations of the husband I could not discover.

62 x 40 mm. The chief, father of the woman, then produced the dowry, twenty 'shoves' queer shaped bits of iron which are currency here, and a goat, and had a lot to say about the question of whether or not the Juju was in the husband or not. The husband sat at the foot of the bier on which lay the child, in a dejected attitude. In front of the chief are two bundles of grass credited with Juju powers and with which he spat and touched the family of the wife.