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A boy buying a bible at the book shop


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107 x 74 mm. The 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/-). The boy standing up on the right has brought a bundle of shells to buy books with for his master. The boys in the foreground are playing a game called 'Mweso''. The photograph is numbered 'U22' in bottom left corner. Album annotated: 'Photographs taken in Uganda in early part of 1900, or before this - by Mr. Hattersley C.M.S.'.

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Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge.

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