Sequence of mounted prints, mainly of Chief Khama [III]

Sequence numbered 1-39 (2, 30, 36 missing; 2 number 26s; one print at end unnumbered). Groups include: groups at Serowe including Khama, [Richard Haydon] Lewis, and [Alfred Haile]; women of Lake Ngami; Khama with his headmen, c.1882 [and ?1911]. Other people include: witch doctor and his grand-child...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 6
Date(s) of creation: c.1880 - c.1911
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Photographs/Box 6
Summary: Sequence numbered 1-39 (2, 30, 36 missing; 2 number 26s; one print at end unnumbered). Groups include: groups at Serowe including Khama, [Richard Haydon] Lewis, and [Alfred Haile]; women of Lake Ngami; Khama with his headmen, c.1882 [and ?1911]. Other people include: witch doctor and his grand-child; Sir Albert Spicer; ?[John] Ratshosha; Sekgoma Khama; [K] Raditladi ("Kgama's brother") and his son; Mrs Lekoy. Activities pictured include: building camp at Ngami; crossing the ?Marieo; beating ?corn. Events pictured include: Khama's jubilee (1911) - march past of white regiment ("the old men"), the generals and army, and the finish of the "native races"; Harvest festival; Christian marriage at ?Lake Ngami. Other buildings or places pictured include: Serowe (LMS Church, "New Church"); Shoshong (including after its desertion, the Kloof, and seen from [James] Hepburn's home); ?Leshoma. Also includes: Khama in London, 1895; antelopes; trees. Some photographs taken by [Francois] Coillard [of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society] and prints captioned in French.
Extent: 45 black and white or sepia prints on 38 pages
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
Language: French
File number: 42
Copies: Several prints in other Africa files, including on hard-backed cards (files 1-4). Many marked up for possible publication, several published in The Chronicle including in April 1923.
Format: Archive