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200 x 125 mm. The same as Y3043NN/10 ‘Herschell Factory’ written below.

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Head and shoulders portrait.

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Head and shoulders portrait of two young women.

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Full-length portraits.

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Newscuttings on West Africa and articles concerning the Cameroons, Congo, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togoland.

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Material by Thomas Dalrymple and others relating to Plateau Province in Nigeria and the Cameroons.

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An album containing photographs showing aspects of European trade in the West African coast.

The photographs occupy 28 pages of an album; plates 21-27, 30-31 and 32-34 each occupy one page. There are a number of blank pages at the back. Most of the prints have brief captions, which have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. They are not always reliable: see, e.g., plates 10 and 15.

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84 x 56 mm. Tangwa the head butcher's two young daughters and his new wife in the centre. All looking very happy.

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84 x 56 mm. Tangwa the head butcher's two young daughters and his new wife in the centre. All looking very happy.

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62 x 42 mm. One of the three wives of Ardo Juli the Fulani Chief of Kishong. She is standing outside the fence at her house which though beehive in shape and consisting of grass laid over pliable branches, is warm and rainproof, and is very snug and comfortable inside. She wears her cloths in the typical style somewhat like a Roman toga.

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40 x 62 mm. One of the wives of the Chief entering her Corn Bin by means of the tree branch which acts as a ladder and which is lowered down on the inside for her to reach the corn.

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The caption reads: 'Hundreds of gallons of palm wine were given by the Government'.

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196 x 135 mm.

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40 x 62 mm. Mother comes to see the dance but can't participate owing to having her child with her.

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39 x 61 mm.neg; print 69 x 96 mm. The common method of carrying baby in the Bamenda division. The child sits astride the mother's back in a sort of hammock of goat skin slung from the shoulders and attached by thongs passing round the waist. The children seem to take to this method naturally and one often sees them helping the mothers and never a word is spoken, each does her 'bit' in getting comfortable.

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44 x 40 mm. Woman of Tamunken farming with her basket for food on her back.

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63 x 98 mm. Seldom if ever having seen a white woman these girls were firmly convinced that they were following the Feminine European fashion in dress. This Albino was dressed in a yellow imitation felt hat, red and blue sweater, red skirt, bright blue stockings and huge imitation leather shoes. The boys to foster this habit assure the girls who have never travelled that they are wearing the latest European Ladies Fashions.

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66 x 100 mm. A woman wearing the bush umbrella or sunshade of the type worn in the Banso and Bamenda districts. It is built on a bamboo frame that also forms the head piece and over the frame is stretched a closely woven matting of dried grass. It is light, adequately covers the wearer, and a child if she has one with her, allows both arms to be free and is absolutely waterproof.

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35 x 40 mm. The only dress they wear is a small fringe of strings at the back. In this area the fringe is short whilst in others it may extend down to the knees.

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53 x 40 mm. (emulsion without gelatine support). The women all assembled in the forest glade and after singing and gesticulating, formed up into a crowd and still singing, marched to the Chief's compound.

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62 x 40 mm. Women carrying bottles of water from the spring to their houses. Normally they use calabashes but no doubt they feel superior with a bottle, and realise it is lighter.

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42 x 60 mm.

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...

Scope and Contents 40 x 62 mm. The senior Ya is the Fon's actual mother, once selected she retains the title all her life. She may only marry a Fai or Tante and she must not work on a farm. All her social inferiors must clap hands in front of her (men and women alike). She can only marry one man in her life and does not pass on her title to her children. When the Fon dies the mother of his successor if alive becomes the senior Ya, otherwise Fai Ndzendzen must choose a girl from among the Eon's daughters. The...

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40 x 62 mm. Dressed in her official dress, a raffia hat which she wears in front of the Fon. A porcupine quill in her nose the septum of which has been pierced. A red Teh or strip of cloth suspended from her waist girdles. Beads crossed over her chest.