Black and white photographs of ethnography exhibits at the Horniman Museum during the mid 20th century. Several of the prints have pencil annotations on the back attributing the exhibits to Horniman curators Herbert Spencer Harrison (curator from 1904-1937) and Otto Samson (curator from 1947-1965).
Photographs of Horniman Ethnography exhibits in the South Hall Gallery, circa 1930-1965
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Handwritten list of descriptions of negatives/prints of Georgetown views
object | ARC/GUP/005/077
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Black and white print of two men with boat beside rapids
object | ARC/GUP/006/312
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Fulani boy & cattle [Kumbal]
object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/608/016
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Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
object | ARC/SUL/001/006
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