Scope and Contents 62 x 40 mm. The Chief then went round the members of the wife's family spitting and touching their hands with the bundles of grass to swear them to some oath, proving there was no evil on their part. In the end, after dusk, the child was buried on this spot outside the parent's house, a stick placed over the grave and much grass, guinea corn stalks and kolas draped on the stick. Sometimes if the death of a Kaka child is not traced to a definite cause the body is placed in a grave under a...

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102 x 59 mm. neg. and contact print. Then followed a sort of lull whilst everyone sat about considering the matter and what steps they should take before consulting Ngambe. The wife sat disconsolately in the shade of the hut in the background, but took no part in any of the discussions.

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109 x 59 mm. A grass bag containing some sort of fetish was then laid over the now distended stomach of the dead child who lay surrounded as seen by stalks of Guinea corn.

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59 x 101 mm. Another mourner then commenced to beat out a weird sort of tempo on a funnel shaped iron bell whilst the wailing again commenced in a higher pitch.

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73 x 60 mm. Another of the wife's relatives having spoken on the relative evil of the woman and the man, the husband stands up to say a few more things about his doubts as to the wife not being a witch. The wife is seen in the background to the right of the woman holding the child in the shadow of the hut.

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95 x 59 mm. neg. & contact print. More speakers followed and so the harangue went on till dusk fell then the child was buried. The wife is seen in the shadow of the hut on the left.

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89 x 60 mm. neg. & contact print. The Medicine Grove with the House round which is hanging a fringe of grasses, a sign that there is no admittance except for the authorised. A stone monolith is seen in the grove.

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97 x 74 mm. A studio photograph demonstrating the way in which Funtumia Africana seeds are blown by the wind from their pods. Taken at the Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons.

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167 x 229 mm. A view showing a European standing among a block of rubber trees.

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109 x 155 mm. A view looking along rows of five-and-a-half year old Funtumias.

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163 x 127 mm. A view looking along rows of five-and-a-half year old Funtumia elasticas and showing natural regeneration.

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62 x 40 mm. Vanity is not confined to Europe, as even a dusty, dusky, half naked little bit of womanhood spent over an hour with her small broken mirror and wooden comb.

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40 x 62 mm. Another little lass from Nwar or She area, ready to set out on her homeward trip after a real hectic, unrestricted in any way period of pleasure.

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40 x 62 mm. A little girl dressed up for Bali market with crossed strings of white beads across her body.

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62 x 40 mm. Three girls having a chat while waiting for their medicine.

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62 x 40 mm. Three girls having a chat while waiting for their medicine.

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40 x 62 mm. A few visitors turn up at my Rest House in the hope of getting some medicines - usually for imaginary ailments. They are for the most part healthy, tough little people.

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62 x 40 mm. Three 'Sylphs' arrive for the dance arrayed in their finery which has been loaned to them by the Tiko labourers for favours rendered. In this way the girls are all being ruined.

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62 x 40 mm. Three 'Sylphs' arrive for the dance arrayed in their finery which has been loaned to them by the Tiko labourers for favours rendered. In this way the girls are all being ruined.

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109 x 64 mm. neg and contact print. Woman grinding corn at her house in the morning - in front of her are the stones over the openings of the graves of her ancestors.

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62 x 40 mm. A girl grinding the corn to make foufou for the dance, they are adepts at this with two stones which are polished with use.

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40 x 62 mm. neg. and 78 x 111 mm. contact print. Another group of gossipers at the market.

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62 x 40 mm. The Beauty Chorus. The people from this hilly country where there are no flat pieces of ground are small, well built with very muscular limbs.

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62 x 40 mm. Some of them followed me around to see what I was up to with the camera so I snapped them whilst they thought I was taking something else.

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205 x 138 mm.