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RCS/Y3011C-N/Y3011C contains:
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44 Ankole women [1907]
45 Burton mending a puncture [1907]
46 Men of Ankole (Bahima) [1907]
47 F. Knowles. Self. King of Ankole [1907]
48 Presents [1907]
49 King Kahaya 'drawing the long bow' [1907]
50 On the Semliki, Capt. Tyrell [1907]
51 Mubendi
52 British East Africa [i.e. Kenya]. Kedong Valley
53 Rickshaws at Entebbe
54 Zebra, killed near Matiana [1907?]
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Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

Title King Kahaya 'drawing the long bow' [1907]
Reference Y3011C/49
Covering Dates 1907
Extent and Medium Good condition.
Content and context

Showing King Kahaya firing a bow with an attendant in the background holding arrows. This is probably a demonstration of one of the weapons given to Bell when he visited Kahaya's house the day after arriving in Mbarara ('Kahaya gave me a lot of bows and arrows, and pottery, and some skins; also a cow and calf', Bell (1907), February 1).

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Indexed

Y3011G/16.

Index Terms
Africa
Mbarara
Uganda
Western
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