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Shows the everyday dress of these Meru indigenous people [side view]. They are fine boys, dressed just as they go about. Each dressed with beads on arms, brass and copper rings on neck and ears - monkey skins and brass around the ankles. [Shantz…

A fine high forest - shows fine tall trees and roadway in fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Shows the wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata - one of the most attractive palms I have seen. Distribution not general - usually limited to one or two streams. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Shows the wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata - one of the most attractive palms I have seen. Distribution not general - usually limited to one or two streams. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women and men. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu young women. Shows type of dress. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu young women. Shows type of dress. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu men. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. Shows type of dress etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. Shows type of dress etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. Shows type of dress etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. Shows type of dress etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women. Shows type of dress etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Yambu women young and old. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Back lens off - forest on hill in the back, grass below. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Off rather early and soon pass into a brush bracken or forest country. Back lens only - shows waterfall, fields, corn, bananas etc. etc. Same as photos taken on previous trip. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Shows a sisal plantation with Orin Denny in back. Passed on through much the same type of grassland to Embu. At sisal farm there are immense areas of Tricholaena rosea, where it has taken possession of the deserted sisal farm. There are also many…

Detail of beehive. [Shantz travel journal, May 19, 1920]

Detail of bee hive. [Shantz travel journal, May 19, 1920]