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Showing a man pointing a rifle at a large model elephant. The caption reads: 'This man is just about to fire a blank into this elephant! Public celebrations at Bamenda, B. Cameroons'.

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A head and shoulders portrait of a man.

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62 x 40 mm. The Native Administration Court Scribe reads the Governor of Nigeria's message to the people, in pidgin English and Doulai, a N.A. Dogari (police man) puts it into Banso language for the benefit of the mixture of traders and market people who have come - Bamuns, Babbas, Nsunglis, Bums, Kakas, Bawayjus, Fulani, Mbororo, Hausas and Bansos.

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62 x 40 mm. Red cam-wood sellers at market, they have the wood dust all mixed with water and sell it in small cakes, to advertise their wares they have reddened their feet and legs with the stuff.

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40 x 62 mm. The terraces and the gardens of the residency at Buea.

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62 x 40 mm. Ngussi Rest house of Karaboard and pam leaf roofing. It is quite a comfortable rest house though very small, has a leaky roof and seems to be the ancestral home of the sand and sweat-flies.

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62 x 40 mm.

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40 x 62 mm. A juju on the roadside from Bai to Mbonge consisting of a couple of sticks, on one an egg, some grass and piece of banana, on the other a pineapple stalk. I never learnt what this was for.

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Maddocks has written many articles on postal history, the majority reflecting his primary interest in the history of the Cameroons, particularly during the colonial period. He is the author of a monograph examining postal arrangements during the conquest of German Kamerun by the British and French during the First World War. His works also cover Nigeria, West Africa, Gambia, Zambia, German East and South West Africa, Togo, Ascension, St. Helena, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica and Barbados.

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40 x 62 mm. The roof of Roebuck's house, all bamboo supports with palm fronds.

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108 x 63 mm. The presence of ants after a sacrifice shows that it has been accepted by the gods. On the death of the Chief, a goat is sacrificed and the blood is poured on to the large central stone in the centre of the grove.

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62 x 40 mm. The usual gang of chatterers sit under the tree in the shade, telling their tales to each other whilst the women milk sellers do a roaring trade.

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62 x 40 mm. neg. & contact print. Typical picture of Mbembe, the palm and forest covered hills half hidden in the haze. We pass from the palm tree down the valley and up over the distant hill.

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Showing some of the crowd watching the celebrations.

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Showing some of the participants and watching crowd.

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Showing two men wearing spectacular head-dresses.

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Showing a man in patterned robes seated under an umbrella with two elephant tusks at his feet. Several others are pictured. It seems probable that the man is a chief.

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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Showing a number of men all wearing ornate robes and two wearing spectacular head-dresses. The man in the centre is seated with a leopard(?) skin at his feet. The nature of the photograph suggests that this is a party of people of significant status.

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Showing a man with a rifle wearing a head-dress of feathers.

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Full-length portrait of a man with a rifle.

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Showing four people in ornate robes standing on stilts.

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62 x 40 mm.

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62 x 40 mm.

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62 x 40 mm.