Sepia photograph of the city walls of Kano. Inscribed 'In Kano city' on the back.
Photograph of Kano city
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Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
object | ARC/SUL/002/007
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Letter by John Brown regarding the disposal of Captain Scott relics from the Horniman Museum
object | ARC/HMG/CM/007/A/COLBECKW/004
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35mm slide: The whole village coming out to meet the group and escort them to a village. Peter thinks this is SCHANGZHAI village, Changzhai, which seems to be where they had lunch. His log book also has ‘Dahzhi’, crossed out, and then ‘Dongkou’, perhaps the name of the village they had stayed in the previous night.
object | ARC/BAL/005/053
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16th April. Pingyuan Shao village, Guiyang. Child.
object | ARC/BAL/004/221
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