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Bananas, yams, and dasheen etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Bananas on the hill opposite - vine trees and stream in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

A photographic of a tropical forest with bananas in semi clearing and a river in the back. H.C. Raven and an indigenous boy called "Toto" are standing in the foreground.

A photograph of banana, rice, manihot, and corn plants which follows rice in this area.

A photograph of banana trees and rice field with a rain forest in the background.

Bananas, rambutan (red and yellow), guava (red and yellow), sugar cane. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Bananas in fore, path & natives, manihot in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Bananas, oil palm - bananas, mts. in back. Road and Verstappen in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

A photograph of bunches of bananas, oil palm, sweet potatoes, and fresh and dried cassava.

Down stream at same place [as previous image] showing many bananas. Seed were picked up - no opportunity to get fresh ones. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

A photograph of bananas and sweet potatoes planted along the avenue.

Bananas, typical of native cultivation. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Cross section of bananas. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Types of banana grown at Moshi. A short, a moderate long, and the best one a long green - eaten while skin is still green - and a yellow very large plantain like form. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Shows a bunch of the best edible type - bunch about 2 1/2 ft. long. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Bananas in fore, hut in the back - with tall grass, trees in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Bananas of types grown here - there are very few of the large ones. The short ones 4 inches long are abundant. It is the dominant type. The central ones are very young and are still flowers. Banana used to make pombe, the chief drink of this high…

Bananas the chief crop, the Solanum at the left. Mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Corn - manihot. Manihot seems recently to have been introduced into this country, for all plantings are young. Bananas with small good type. Hills and plantations in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Bananas and a Raphia like palm. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]