Betal nut (pawpaw), pepper leaf (tambu), tobacco - dry and powdered and dry [sic], chalk or lime (traka) and Gambia in try. Everybody seems to use this stuff. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 2, 1920]
Mackenzie family photo taken shortly after Clark and Betty Mackenzie's dad, Joseph, was shot and killed by Pinkerton Guards in Pittsburgh railway yard. Joseph was jumping a train to get back home when he was shot.
The long tough Juncus, Bobartia spathoclea, which is probably used to thatch the houses. Seems admirably adapted for all kinds of mat and basket work, and seems to do well on relatively dry coast hills. Fire has destroyed much of the taller…
Biggs family photograph taken in Nogales, Arizona, circa 1943. Individuals include, left to right: George W. Biggs, a Tuskegee airman; John Biggs, a young man; and Levi Biggs, Sr., a buffalo soldier.
Biggs family photograph taken in Nogales, Arizona. On the left is Levi Biggs, Jr., an airman. His mother, Dolores R. Riggs is in the center. On the left is George W. Biggs, navigator. The photograph was taken to commemorate homecoming.