Browse Items (9328 total)

A photograph of several indigenous bowmen, placing an arrow onto their bows to test their skills.

A copy from a series of flyers printed by the National League to Defend Religious Liberty promoting a boycott in 1929. The boycott comprised various actions such as not purchasing lottery tickets, attending playhouses or movie theaters. Its…

A photograph of a brachystegia at the left, annona senegalensis in foreground and in the middle of the photograph is a large borassus palm with the bulge in the stem about 20 feet from the ground.

A photograph taken in the rain of brachystegia forest which is tall and open. There is also good grass cover.

A photograph of largely brachystegia randii in Amatongas forest.

Brazilian tomato tree. Rather sour, but quite good. Seen at Elizabethville but not ripe at that point. A bright - almost tomato red. Well shaped and very uniform in color, size and shape. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Bread fruit, Artocarpus incisa. These fruits are small, about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Oranges, manihot, fried bananas, baskets of cocoanut leaves, small bananas and plaintain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]