Main page > Religion, Belief and Ceremonies > Religion, Belief and Ceremonies in Africa Please click on the images below:  | | Classmark: | RCS CMS XXVIII/18 | | Originator: | Fisher, Arthur Bryan, 1867-1955, missionary | | Title: | Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral, Mengo | | Description: | View of the interior of the Cathedral with light shining in through the windows. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y305J/162 | | Originator: | Unknown | | Title: | The witch doctor | | Description: | Showing a Zulu girl and a witch doctor seated on the ground outside a thatched hut. Between them on a straw mat are small pieces of bone, stones, etc. which are being used in the consultation. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y305J/165 | | Originator: | Unknown | | Title: | Abawuata | | Description: | Showing an Amanguba circumcision dance in Natal, with a row of youths dressed in grass skirts, their heads concealed by grass hats and their bodies painted white. All carry sticks in their right hands. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCMS 120/2/1/40 | | Originator: | Hebbert, Henry Eric, 1893-1980, Colonel | | Title: | Lalibela. Church of St Emmanuel | | Description: | A glass slide showing 12 men and a woman by the entrance steps of the large rock-hewn 12th century church building... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCMS 120/2/1/45 | | Originator: | Hebbert, Henry Eric, 1893-1980, Colonel | | Title: | Priests at Geneta Mariam M'/Lalibela | | Description: | A glass slide showing two men in robes both holding a small cross. Behind them can be seen the rock-hewn church at Genete Maryam... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30446F/3 | | Originator: | Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847-1916 | | Title: | A group of Tasso men - a secret society - Imperri - Sherbro, W.C. Africa | | Description: | Showing a group of four Tasso men of the Poro secret society... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30446F/9 | | Originator: | Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847-1916 | | Title: | Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi, Front view | | Description: | A group portrait of five Bundu dancing girls in traditional costume... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30446F/10 | | Originator: | Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847-1916 | | Title: | Group of Bundu girls in dancing costume, Jowati, Upper Mendi. Back view | | Description: | A group portrait of five Bundu dancing girls in traditional costume... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30446F/24 | | Originator: | Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847-1916 | | Title: | The Bundu Devil attended by her satellites, a country institution common throughout Mendi Land | | Description: | Showing the Bundu Devil standing among a group of her acolytes... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30448U/5 | | Originator: | Soldier on the Kumasi Ashanti Expedition | | Title: | Whale (Ju Ju) Big fetish play, Gold Coast | | Description: | A view showing a group of over fifty men, women and children surrounding a large whale-shaped object approximately twenty to twenty-five feet in length... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3045T/11 | | Originator: | Hattersley, Charles William, 1866-1934 | | Title: | A boy buying a bible at the book shop | | Description: | he photograph is annotated: 'He has 3,000 cowrie shells on his arm and the book seller is giving him the bible in exchange for them (cost at the time 10/-)...' | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30469F/291 | | Originator: | Westgate, Thomas Buchanan Reginald, fl 1899-1936, missionary | | Title: | Wagogo warriors on their way to attend a trial for witchcraft, 1909-1910 | | Description: | Showing a group of warriors posed for the camera among scrubland... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y30469F/288 | | Originator: | Westgate, Thomas Buchanan Reginald, fl 1899-1936, missionary | | Title: | Ndudula, the accused witch, 1909-1910 | | Description: | Showing Ndudula, the Wagogo woman accused of witchcraft... | | Full information |
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