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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56 x 84 mm. neg and contact print.

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46 x 75 mm. neg. and contact print.

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Showing a man wearing an unusual helmet.

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63 x 109 mm. neg and contact print. An Akonko girl folds her 'dress' before putting it on in the morning.

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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Scene on day of public celebrations.

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Scene on day of public celebrations.

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64 x 96 mm. A little Bafut boy with a home made crown of banana leaves of which he is inordinately proud.

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40 x 62 mm. The women all effect strings of white unglazed beads with native designs on blue and red both round the neck and waist. Also numerous bangles adorn each wrist.

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46 x 95 mm. 'A Bafut woman with her child, these women all wear numerous necklaces of large beads with the largest and longest bead in the centre. Some of the beads are really old and said to come from Genoa and each could purchase 10 slaves each. All these women have cowrie shells suspended from their girdles in front' [historic caption].

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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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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Bamenda, Northwest Cameroon.

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62 x 40 mm. The Chum dancers rush into the ring whistling like birds whilst all spectators crouch.

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56 x 84 mm. Turtle or lizard design on an old woman's arm at Nbeno. It is formed by raised weals the operation being done in her youth. Fertility sign or totem.

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40 x 62 mm. neg and 79 x 111 mm. contact print. Close-up of the little 'kilts' the girls wear - this is the fashionable and much prized dress of the ladies of the Mbem area.

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40 x 62 mm. neg and 79 x 111 mm. contact print.

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62 x 40 mm. The excitement rose as the drums boomed out the beats of the Samba and the Kebais whirled and gyrated faster and faster in company with the lesser beings who mingled with them.

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62 x 40 mm. Women carrying baskets of food, women with children in their arms and women with both prance around oblivious to the heat and dust whilst two slightly intoxicated ladies dance some special erotic dance.

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62 x 40 mm. Midst the milling mob all completely under the influence of gallons of palm wine women who seem to be more abandoned than the others continue to execute their own special dances.

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64 x 78 mm Wine soaked girls and dancers cuddle and squeeze in public, a thing never seen in W.A. normally where men and women don't even walk together.

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62 x 40 mm. The confused masses of people and Chum Jujus in the clearing whilst the Jujus prepare to circle round in the dance whilst whistling and the people crouch as they pass.

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62 x 40 mm. The Chum rushing into the ring of spectators whistling as they run. The people are seen crouching as they pass them.