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62 x 40 mm. The crouching crowds as the Jujus pass through them.

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62 x 40 mm. Two dancers in a small clearing in the long corn stalks, one wearing the peculiar feathered headdress that certain members affect, but both wearing a sort of kilt. Both kept up the whistling all the time.

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109 x 64 mm. neg. and contact print. Also showing the beautifully made local baskets the women carry on their shoulders.

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62 x 40 mm. A domestic scene at the corner of a compound where the youngster gets his bath midst gurgles of delight.

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62 x 40 mm. The capacity for even young girls for drinking palm wine is marvellous and seems to have no affect on them. Here is one bright young thing draining a calabash of the wine.

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62 x 40mm. The ancient drum of the Bali Chiefs used to summons all his people such as at time of war. It is a solid tree trunk, hollowed out with a slot on the upper surface and end carvings.

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62 x 40 mm. A boy calls on the hairdresser who wields a knife made from native iron and stone sharpened. On left are the tombstones of the family.

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62 x 40 mm. Whilst awaiting the arrival of the Chief Commissioner, the Fon sat under his umbrella in the Old Market whilst the Chindas danced the Samba in the distance. Between the Chindas and the Fon danced the Kebai and here Fai Ndzendzen is seen prancing up to salute the Fon. The other Fais swing their posteriors to a constant chant of 'Oooh-OOOO'.

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40 x 62 mm. Most of the older women were dressed as this one - a chief's daughter - in their finery with a bunch of leaves at the back.

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

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35 x 51 mm. neg. with 75 x 109 mm. print. A little Hausa dame at Batebo on Christmas Day with all her finery on. She used to be Galadema's lady but ran away from him and now is a lady of easy virtue and doing well.

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56 x 69 mm. Avion, a Hausa lady of easy virtue who used to be so promiscuous in her choice of friends that the married women paid boys to attack her and remove an eye. She was an excellent photographer's model.

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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35 mm. neg and contact print.

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35 mm. neg and contact print.

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108 x 64 mm. Where I stayed at Nbeno. A typical house. Bamboo walls - ground sheet over bed to keep off rain, clothes on rope.