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Roll 2 placed in camera 14 March 1953 Kodachrome

1 Dill
2 Ulvoa
3 Lutap
4-5 Men digging around my house
6 Lutap, W.W. (Warwar DZ) Sarkim Barki
7 Lutap - Kassala Tiker
8 Sarkim Barki’s daughter and child
9 Sarkim Barki digging up mounds
10 Songhe’s dimama hoeing Songhe’s farm
11 Songhe’s wife hoeing Songhe’s farm
12 Songhe and wife hoeing Songhe’s farm
13 Songhe and Dimama hoeing Songhe’s farm
14 Songhe’s farm showing trees that have been uprooted for firewood. These are trees whose pods are collected for replanting (DZ probably yom=tephrosia vogelii)
15 Irrigation ditch built by people and passes Sarkim Barki’s farm.
16-17 Tsharl
18 Working on ??Kindicki??
19-20 Nyap’s wife sowing corn
21 Ndunga’s daughter sowing corn
22 Ndunga’s daughter and wife sowing corn
23 Ndunga’s wife planting corn
24-25 People working Lutap’s farm.
26 Haze over the valley
27 Farm from R.H.
28 Farm from R.H. looking North
29 Gelbon’s Mona Lisa
30 Gelbon’s medicine house
31 Hayi’s store houses
32 beer baskets
33 Warwar holding up post
34 Wuladju digging hole
35 RH from Ndoti’s
36 women sitting filling baskets.
37 Kuli
38-39 Corn drying for fufu
40 Lutap

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3rd Roll Kodachrome placed in camera March 21st

1 Lutap
2 -3 People listening to D.O.
4 Makadas arriving
5-8 Group around D.O. emphasis on Kassalas
9 People stirring mud for house building at Getap's compound 353526.jpg house building
10 Foundation for house with dirt carrier. 353412.jpg
11 Stirring mud for house building at Getaps compound 353412.jpg house building
12 Getaps house two hours after first picture
13 Getaps house two hours after first picture showing how mud walls held up on one type of house. 353611.jpg house building; constructing mud walls
14 Mkt Wawa 16 Mkt on 24 March
15 Mkt Wawa 17 Mkt on 24 March
18 Medicine being made for Kuldua coming to Tiker
19 -21 Ndiel from top of Ndiel-Tiker road
22 Tepgal from top of Ndiel-Tiker road
23 Fine roof on house in ??Shoata?? compound. This is done by single men to show women how well they can work.
24 Medicine put on firewood to protect it against theft.
25-6 Banguis house
27 Banguis house accomadation of Baskets &c.
28 Scene from Banguis comp.
29-30 Nyap’s Mona lisa
31 Shield in Nyap’s comp.
32 Nyap’s medicine hut
33 Scene from Nyap’s comp.
34 Fish basket in Tapgel’s comp.
35 Entrance to Bangui’s comp. 353770.jpg compound entrance; medicines
36 Typical Warwar path - path to Ndoti’s house.
37 Spoiled
38 Mission from Ndoti’s Hill
39-40 View of the Hills. finished March 26th.
     

4th Kodachrome

1-6 Joseph communal farming
1 -2 Gelbu hoeing up hill to kill elephant grass
3 Gelbu & Vaidu hoeing up hill to kill elephant grass
4 Gelchie hoeing
5 Mbon Gelchie Vuvuli Gelbon hoeing
6 Ngeltie hoeing
7 Tscheukdua’s wife farming wife girl
8-10 Women hoeing ridges on Tepgel’s farm
11 Taduck’s farm 10 days after planting
12 Joseph’s farm showing ridges and ??nts??
13-14 View of Songhe and S Barki’s farms
15 Ngari catching grass on Joseph’s roof
16 Ngari and other men laying grass on Joseph’s roof
17 Tita making net for bush fowls and Joseph mother making basket for carrying.
18 Woman in Gajus Comp smashing guinea corn 353456.jpg threshing corn
19 Woman in Gajus Comp sifting guinea corn 353532.jpg threshing corn
20 Lutap making net
21 Joseph making bamboo strips to tie grass on roof
21 Joseph holding bamboo strips, preparing to throw ‘em
23 Eating- fufu in basket, soup in calabash
24 Chop is coming in Joseph’s Comp.. for those who helped with house building.
25 Chop is here
26 -29 Chopping (DZ ie eating)
30 Ndunga
31-33 Ndunga spinning 353613.jpg spinning
34-35 View of Ndarrup from ??Yitile??/ ??Ifitle?? to Tscharl ??wood??
36-37 Ngani, Nyan, Joseph Lanng
38 Joseph

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Roll 5 Kodachrome April 10 1953

1 -3 Pickins in Tepgel’s Comp.
4 Hausa traders from Yola carrying calabashes
5 -7 Madams. Ngap’s pickins
8 ??forgotten??
9 Scene of farms from Ndoti’s hill
10 Lutap, Tepgel, Koltap etc
11-25 Pictures taken at Tscharl, including one of two young men sharing beer drink.
26-36 Women making pot and basket in Tepgel’s compound.
Nyaps mona lisa
Finished April 12th 1953.

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Roll 1, March 11-14 1953

1 house opposite Nyaps camp
2 man resting day after strenuous communal labour and night of beer drinking.
3-7 Warwar Market March 13 1953, and scenery.
8-9 Scenes from R.H. (=Rest House DZ) to mkt.
10?
11 Scene from RH looking to Tepgel
12 -13 Rest house looking down on farm
14 Two little boys learning to make thread 353751.jpg
15 View of Ndiel from RH
16 Farms from RH
17 Women coming from farms stopping for a chat at RH
18-19 Men building house opposite Nyap’s house
20 Lobal medicine put on road to RH between Ndoti’s camp and my new camp. May have been put there for me as in the evening was talking with Lutaps wife, the woman who has medicines. 170946.jpg treatment, medicine

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Roll 4 April 23 1953

Shot on April 23 & 24 Big fest at Ndiel - Lutap’s dinner for his Dembe friend

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Roll 7 June 1 1953

1 Soqua
2 ?
3 Vuwalli and Mboa dressed up
4-5 Tschekdua making mat 353517.jpg mat/basket weaving
6-7 Yuyu’s young ??bill??
8-9 Ngiltie and Hello making big carrying basket. 353742.jpg basket weaving
10-11 Children of Mbati and Nyap’s camp.
12 Dance place, Tiker.
Medicines:
13 Ngwimie
14 Nge
15 Gui
16 Bel
17 Ngena
18 Kur
19 Njim
20 Lebir
21 Tschua
22 Jarnjil
23 Ngenum
24 Sar??
25 Yuio
26 27 Tin
28 Wulnamie
29 Guli
30 Tu
31 Qual grass drying - used in making mats. 353675.jpg raffia drying
finished June 6

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Roll 7 [sic] June 11 1953

1 Play jujus at Tiker 353767.jpg
2 New Play jujus at Tiker
3 Lutap’s mud house showing mat placed around it to hide the part underneath where juju sleeps. 353519.jpg
4 Mafe (Selbon’s juju [another note says Gelba’s juju)) worn by Patri. Name is Mafe.
5 Patri holding Tong, a horn blown at Mba shoa 353711.jpg

horn
6 Juju’s resting behind fence Ndiel.
7 Burr and Mafe on field
8 Yu, Tschekdua Songhe eating corn at special field.
9 Big men sitting round beer at special field. 353520.jpg
10 Top of Bur’s head
11-15 Shoas dancing Tepgel’s camp
16 New play shoa female
17 Play shoa Tablis
18 Some of big men drinking beer at Tabli’s
19 Ngubo Tapgeb shoa at Tapli’s compound
Finished June 13 1953

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Roll 8 13 June 1953

1 Mbefa and group eating
2-3 Yiliyu and Patri wrestling 353749.jpg wrestling
4 Yiliyu and ?? wrestling
5-6 Children wrestling.
7 Mukadu (Shoa) drinking beer through straw - Funeral feast at Nguila’s compound for another of Nguila’s wives 353726.jpg shoa masquerade
8 Yaya.
9 Ngui
10 Children of Ndiel
11 Njielge pouring beer
12 Tabli and man from Yambap
13 Kuldua and Mbatibi making mats
14 Lutap
15 Lemmo
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