The Gutowskis in Mambilla - the photos 1

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The photographs are copyright Willi Gutowski.
They may be used in education provided acknowledgement is made.
No commercial use may be made without prior permission in writing.


1. Teenage boy poling dugout canoe on the Donga River

2. Brass bowl made by the lost wax technique

3. Corn bins near Jalingo

4. Mambilla woman grinding corn on a stone

5. The distinctive, humped, long-horned cattle herded by the Fulani

6. Mambilla woman cooking cornmeal porridge ("FUFU") in a clay pot on a typical hearth

7. New, improved, cement latrine

8. Chicken coop near Warwar

9. Washing clothes

10. Fulani woman's hairdo decorated with beads

11. Fulani girl selling butter and buttermilk from a calabash (1/2 of a dried gourd).

12. Mambilla woman post-partum leaning on a birthing stool

13. Girls dressing hair

14. Clothed Mambilla boy and naked girl holding baby on her back from Ndeng--typically only the boys are dressed in clothes in order to attend school. Money is not spent to dress the girls until their teens

15. Typical Mambilla family scene--Man in front with stick to "chase away the snakes," followed by the son, with laden mother carrying baby taking up the rear

16. Four Mambilla girls wearing beads, with calabash on head

17. Three Mambilla young men

18. Beaded and turbanned Fulani mother with child, from Jimeta, note her Kola stained, reddened teeth

19. Christian wedding procession
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