Catalogue description Return of the skull of the late Chief Mkwawa to Tanganyika. Includes 23 photographs...

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Details of CO 822/770
Reference: CO 822/770
Description:

Return of the skull of the late Chief Mkwawa to Tanganyika.

Includes 23 photographs depicting: Hehe Tribe, Tanganyika: Governor Sir Edward Twining's presentation to Chief Adam Sapi (grandson), of Chief Mkwawa's skull which had been severed from his body by the Germans in 1898. Dated 1954.

Date: 1954-1955
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EAF 13/172/01
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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