Decle, Lionel (fl. 1893-1906)
- Date:
- August-November 1893
- Reference:
- MS.6017
- Part of:
- Decle, Lionel (fl. 1893-1906), African traveller and journalist
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Rough notebook of travels from Urambo via Tabora, Mwanza and Lake Victoria to Kampala. With pencil sketches of local inhabitants, weapons, costume etc. Two leaves from an earlier notebook, July 1893, are inserted loose.
Publication/Creation
August-November 1893
Physical description
1 volume 1 vol: 161 × 104 mm., ii, 89 pp.
Location of duplicates
Photographs of sketches in these notebooks can be found on Wellcome Images:
local weapons: L0046588
'Beche Nyaso' portrait: L0046589
sketches of spider, danding head dress, audience house of chief, dancing sandals and portrait: L0046590
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores