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97 x 72 mm. A view of a Funtumia Africana branch at the Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons, showing leaves and empty seed pods.

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84 x 56 mm.

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62 x 40 mm. Bringing in wheelbarrow loads of palm fruit from the palm oil plantation to the factory for oil extraction.

Scope and Contents A collection of negatives (with accompanying notes) each housed in brown paper. Dalrymple's titles and annotations on the sleeves have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Two essays are also filed with the negatives: Thomas Dalrymple 'A pagan wake: the funeral celebrations for the father of the chief of Bande' and M.D. Jeffreys 'West African caps', which...

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Album of various sized prints, concerned with Sir Walter Buchanan-Smiths service with the Nigeria Regiment in the Cameroons (plates 1-8) and in German East Africa (plates 159-201). The captions are difficult to read as they are written on dark brown paper in black ink.

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40 x 62 mm. Little girls from the bush who have got on all their finery to attend the market but get nervous when they arrive and keep to the huts fringing the area.

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45 x 36 mm. The Butcher's stalls, the butchers are by far the aristocrats of the West African markets and are the wealthiest men in the town.

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62 x 40 mm. A cam wood seller with the little cakes of mixed wood dust and water on her bamboo table and surrounded by prospective customers. The Fon, his daughters and the Fais all wear it on their legs and arms.

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57 x 85 mm. neg. with contact print. Cam wood sellers at the Market with their products on the Banso tables made from strips of Bamboo.

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62 x 40 mm. Cam wood sellers in Banso Market with their legs covered with the red dust to advertise their wares.

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40 x 61 mm. A Fungom woman with the blocks of bamboo stuck in the lobes of the ears which are gradually stretched during childhood.

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40 x 61 mm. A Fungom woman with the blocks of bamboo stuck in the lobes of the ears which are gradually stretched during childhood.

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102 x 139 mm.

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Two albums of photocopies in colour of envelopes, postcards, stamps and correspondence mailed from members of the Allied Forces in the course of conquering and occupying German Kamerun during the First World War. The originals were featured in Maddocks’s definitive study, ‘The postal arrangements of the Anglo-French Cameroons Expeditionary Force 1914-16’ (Oswestry, 1996). A list of individual items is included in each volume.

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40 x 51 mm. neg. and 75 x 111mm. print. An old cannibal who fought in the Fulani wars in this area, he says they did not eat human flesh for the love of it or for hunger, but to gain the qualities of their enemies.

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40 x 62 mm. My carriers arriving at Mankon Rest House which is situated in the Chief's Compound. The entrance gate is seen with the guard houses, the juju sticks up in the centre and the plinth on the right.

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40 x 62 mm neg. with 68 x 111 mm. print. The whole story is depicted on the roof supports and shows the early stages of the liaison, the discovery and the unfaithful wife and her lover being hanged as well as the child. They were stood on a horse.

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40 x 62 mm neg. with 68 x 111 mm. print. The carvings on the posts at the Bali Rest House, they depict the unfaithfulness of the Fon's wife and the penalty paid by her, the man and the child.

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64 x 82 mm. The Chief of Babungo with his cap shaped like a horned crown. The crown band is of cotton with the tied fillet and the crown is composed of two bunches of blue-black feathers standing out on either side. [Fig. VI in West African Caps]

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62 x 40 mm. The Chief then followed by his four sons, the train bearers and the trumpeters with their elephant tusk trumpets set out to complete a tour of the compound.

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62 x 40 mm. The chief then retired for a short time only to reappear in his Native dress when he came to the Rest House to 'salute' us. He was accompanied by four of his sons, his chindas and his two train-bearers whilst behind him and a little to the left are seen two of the horn blowers who kept up an incessant trumpeting on their elephant tusks.

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62 x 40 mm. The Chief of the Ngemba Tribe at Mankon his capital which has a population of over 5000 people. He is dressed in his Silver Eagle mounted German helmet and glittering brass studded silver cuirasse, given to him when Germany ruled the Cameroon. His seat is a native stool covered with minute coloured beads and he has his carpet of leopard skin denoting his Royal rank.

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59 x 102 mm. The Chief very kindly agreed to let us photograph him in his uniform of which he is naturally extremely proud and wears on all important and official occasions when he is the centre of envy from all the other chiefs who only have their native dress.

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70 x 102 mm. Probably the last remaining specimen of Imperial Germany.

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Bamenda, Northwest Cameroon.