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Picture No 12018069
Date 1922
Description Kikuyu couple in the forest, Kenya, East Africa
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Kikuyu couple in the forest, Kenya (then a British colony), East Africa -- the plume on the end of the warrior's spear shows his peaceful intentions, and the fact that the young woman is holding the spear indicates that she has agreed to marry him.
Source Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.7, June 1922
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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