Photographic 35mm slides assembled by John Picton, potentially for a lecture at the Horniman Museum. The slides depict masks and mask making in Africa. A card label accompanying the slides reads 'John Picton Masks & Notes' but no notes were found with this set of slides.
Slides: masks and mask making, John Picton
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Black and white medium format negative (scanned positive) of a boat moored on a river by a tree
Hart Museum Visitor Books
Letter by L.M. Forbes, to Otto Samson, accepting the offer of plates by Captain Colbeck.
Black and white print of bucket and staging in silhouette with water and clouds behind
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