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76 x 103 mm. One of the 'good’ juju men with his feathered headdress and forked gong made from local iron rudely fashioned. He danced about and threw himself into all sorts of contortions.

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76 x 103 mm. He is here seen close up with his gong, leopard skin bag and his knowing old face surmounted by his feathered headdress.

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61 x 96 mm. A Juju man who was acting as police to keep order. His waist was covered with small calabashes acting as powder horns whilst snail shells were garlanded round his neck.

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76 x 103 mm. A Juju man with his leopard skin headdress with snail shells attached to the crown. In his right hand he holds a sort of rattle of pleated fibre with hard seeds inside whilst his left hand holds the forerunner of the Swastika, which is also used as a charm.

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76 x 103 mm. A Juju man with his leopard skin headdress with snail shells attached to the crown. In his right hand he holds a sort of rattle of pleated fibre with hard seeds inside whilst his left hand holds the forerunner of the Swastika, which is also used as a charm.

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76 x 103 mm. Another Juju man with his cow head headdress and his neck festooned with the long cylindrical ends of calabashes and snail shells.

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64 x 91 mm.

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40 x 62 mm.

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Portrait of two women from the waist up.

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56 x 84 mm. The high roofs of grass are used as a store by the inmates. All Pagans and farm bananas, colas and corn.

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40 x 62 mm. Nyange, a Bamendankwe woman with her child. Again, being mountain people they are short in stature with thick muscular thighs and broad chested.

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40 x 62 mm. They usually wear one or at the most, two waist strings from which a few fibres form a fringe in front but they wear several necklaces of beads like the Dante people.

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56 x 84 mm. Pagan girls whose only adornment consists of brightly coloured raffia bags, examining cheap Manchester cottons with interest.

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Showing some of the participants. Bamenda, Northwest Cameroon.

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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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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.