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RCS/Y3011C-N/Y3011C contains:
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54 Zebra, killed near Matiana [1907?]
55 Sandbanks on the Semliki (where I shot a strange turtle) [1907]
56 [My Semliki elephant, February 25 1907]
57 [My Semliki elephant, February 25 1907]
58 Lake Kikerongo, Toro [1907]
59 Uganda peasants' home
60 Young Leopard [1907]
61 Kasagama, King of Toro [1907]
62 My elephant's feet, drying [1907]
63 Falls on the Congo border [1907]
64 Same as above [Falls on the Congo border 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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