African Collection (page 7)

F Pershouse, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association
F Pershouse, District Commissioner, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association, South Africa

George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History Mus
The removal of George the African elephant from the Central Hall in April 1927 for remounting

Zulu warrior and his five wives
A Zulu warrior and his five wives - South Africa Date: circa 1905

Six girls learning Arabic at school, Egypt
Six Egyptian girls in a classroom learning Arabic from a male teacher -- a recent trend in extending educational opportunities to girls

Niger, West Africa - Baby receiving an enema from his Mother. Date: circa 1930s

Masai - Kenya, East Africa - Amazing neck rings. Date: 1949

Two Girls of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan
Two Girls (sisters?) of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

Chad - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise
Chad, Central Africa - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise. Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin; practitioners believe this

Suffragette The Woman Question Africa. A group of bare-breasted African women pose for the camera. Onto this photograph has been placed, the caption, The Woman Question. We Want the Vote! Bizarre

obelisk of the Temple of Ra-Atum, Heliopolis, Egypt
The major surviving remnant of Heliopolis is the obelisk of the Temple of Ra-Atum erected by Senusret I of Dynasty XII. It still stands in its original position

Mustapha Pasha Barracks - Alexandria, Egypt Date: circa 1910

1940s East Africa - Kenya, men of the Wakamba tribe Photograph by a British army recruitment officer stationed in East Africa and the Middle East during World War II

Nubian women and girl, Sudan, East Central Africa
Three Nubian women and a girl in patterned textiles, Sudan, East Central Africa. Date: 1922

King Archibong III of Calabar, Gambia, West Africa (then part of the British Empire). He was crowned in 1878 with a regalia sent by Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1878

Ashanti domestic architecture, Gold Coast, West Africa
Ashanti (Asante) domestic architecture made of clay, Gold Coast, West Africa, now part of Ghana. Date: 1922

Village witch doctor, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Village witch doctor with his equipment, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. 1922

Mongo tribesman and wife, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Mongo tribesman and his wife in the forest, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Queen Nenzima, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Queen Nenzima of the Mangbettus (Mangbetu) tribe, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Young women of the Kabyle Tribe, Algeria
Young Kabyle Women from Taourirt Des Beni Menguellet in the Djurdjura or Jurjura Range, a mountain range of the Tell Atlas, part of the Atlas Mountain System, located in Kabylie, Algeria

Two Eritrean Warriors - Eritrea, East Africa
circa 1910s

Meru Women - Kenya
circa 1910s

Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Smelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s

The Grand Hotel - Khartoum, Sudan. circa 1920s

Moyamba, Sierra Leone, Madam Yoko, Chiefs, Colonial Officers
At Moyamba, the capital and largest city of Moyamba District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone ( Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate - British colonial administration) - D.C

The Masonic Hotel, Boksburg, a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Date: circa 1910

President Brand statue, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Statue to Johannes Henricus Brand (1823-1888), fourth president of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Date: circa 1900

Roman Catholic Church, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Roman Catholic Church, Gordon Road, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1920

Gold Mine Headgear - Witwatersrand (East) - South Africa. Date: circa 1910s

A Tunisian man wearing a djelleba and a chechia hat
A Tunisian man wearing a traditional djelleba and a chechia hat, walks past a clothes shop in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. Date: 1987

Portrait of an old man in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. He wears a traditional djelleba with the hood over his head. He looks fiercly at the camera. Date: 1987

Fantastic Rope Bridge - Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Fantastic Rope Bridge (made of Liana vines) over the River Kwilu - Belgian Congo, Central Africa. Date: circa 1908

Young Beggar Girl - Algeria. Date: 1900s

Moorish Bathhouse - Algeria. Date: circa 1909

Young South African girl in the bush Date: circa 1910s

Village Scene - Ivory Coast - 1940s - French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta

Funeral of an Egyptian Princess - Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1900s

Axum, Ethiopia, East Africa - Monolithic Stele - 1st century. These tall, carved obelisks, relics of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum - they are markers for the Royal Tombs. Date: 1910s

Ibo Women, Nigeria - Traditional Dancing - note the Igbo ankle rattles. Date: circa 1950s

Punishment of female debtors in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), East Africa - tied up with a chain until they pay their debts! Date: circa 1930s

Sudan - A group of Hadendoa Warriors. The Hadendoa is the name of a nomadic subdivision of the Beja people, known for their support of the Mahdiyyah rebellion during the 1880s to 1890s

Tanganyika (Tanzania) - East Africa - Group of Ikoma People - an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. Date: circa 1909

Acacia Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. Postcard published by Moloo Brothers & Co Ltd. Curios and Carpet Dealers of Dar-es-Salaam, the premises of whom we can see in this shot

Sudan, Africa - Shilluk Mother and her four daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Cartoon with British and American tanks, WW2
Cartoon, political map of Libya with British and American tanks during the Second World War. circa 1942

Map, Gold Coast Colony, Ghana, West Africa, with the main cocoa producing areas shaded, a railway line and steamship routes. Also a gold mining area. Date: circa 1920

Anatomy of the human skull.. Anatomy of the human skull: Georgian female, Turk, African, Calmuck and Caribs. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

The scramble for Africa: the Berlin Conference, 1884-1885
French commentary on the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885: Otto von Bismarck, then Chancellor of Germany, is portrayed here wielding a knife over a sliced up cake, marked Africa

Algerian Dancer - Exotic moorish girl with Tambourine Date: circa 1910s

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