Headman of Rupa. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the headman of Rupa, posed standing in front of the stone wall of a house. Nevill and Captain Kennedy visited Rupa in mid-January.
Village of But. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the grassy ridge towards the houses of the village of But, visited by Nevill and Kennedy in February 1914: 'The following day we visited the village of But, two hours' journey from Konia. This village is like the latter situated on a magnificent d...
Tagi Raja [at Jamiri]. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the Aka chief: 'On the 10th of January Captains Graham, Kennedy, and I left for Gohain-tan, the chief village of the Kavatsun (Kapachor) Akas, it is one day's journey from Jamiri; a 6,500 feet ridge separates the Kutsun from the Kavat...
Group of Daflas [at Riang]. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Dafla men and women posed behind a light stockade of sharpened stakes. This is possibly the stockade built by the Daflas in anticipation of an attack on the British mission (see note at print 16).
Punishment [burning grain stores at Yefan]. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Historical Events Distant view of burning grain houses. This reprisal again the Daflas was a result of increasing Dafla hostility to the British mission. On 21 February the party found the road into the Borelli Valley blocked by felled trees, with groups of Dafla warriors shadowing the c...
Genre: Historical Events Showing Tagi Raja seated on a makeshift dais in the British camp, with his attendants gathered around him. A gramophone can be seen on the left on the seat beside on of the British officers. The visit is recorded in the report: 'The next day Tagi Raja of the Kutsun (Haz...
Camp at Jamiri. Photographer: Kennedy, Robert Siggins
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Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the British camp, built within a stockade by the river near the village of Jamiri. The mission reached the Tenga Valley on the 5th January 1914: 'The next morning we crossed the divide and came into the Tenga Valley, a fine open valley with large lev...