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101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

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101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

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The caption to the left of the photograph reads: 'A carving representing Madamu, which was given to me at Ekibondo, and was the cause of much amusement'.

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'Badidi gave me his house for the night, when my carriers ran away and left me'.

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Showing cotton being laid out on raised wooden platforms to dry. Upper Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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At Gangala na Bodio, near the Garamba National Park, Zaire. The caption reads: 'Monsieur Otterman giving each one [elephant] a small cake of salt after the morning parade'.

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At Gangala na Bodio, near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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Showing a long canoe full of people.

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A caption on the album page reads: 'I met this Orange[?] man in the Eturi forest in the Congo near Mumbasa. He has a wig of monkies hair'. Met on trek from M'bogo to Iruma in Upper Zaire.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'The girls at Ekibondo played single stringed instruments like this. It is rather like a bow, and by altering the pressure of the teeth on the wood and twanging at the same time, they could play quite pleasing little ditties. When a number were playing together it was most effective'.

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Northeastern Zaire.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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The caption at the bottom right-hand corner of the album page continues: 'All the girls were very clever at this, and I saw no one person specializing in the art. I was amazed to see what a mop of hair they have when they have all their plaits combed out. They use only a sharpened bone to work with. On this page there are two different styles of dressing'.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Mobira. Near Irumu N.E. Congo'.

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A caption on the album page reads: 'I met this Orange[?] man in the Eturi forest in the Congo near Mumbasa. He has a wig of monkies hair'. Met on trek from M'bogo to Iruma in Upper Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Mobira. Near Irumu N.E. Congo'.

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112 x 157 mm. A view showing the severed head of a giant hog; 'the grotesque whitish eye warts and the characteristic erectness of the bristles of the coat are well seen'. Photograph by C.A. Reid.

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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The caption below the photograph continues: 'He is the Sultani of Medje, and paramount Chief of the Mangbetu'.

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Showing a river, vegetation and hills in the Parc National de Maiko, Upper Zaire.