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A Kikuyu Home Guard on duty, 1953 (b/w photo) [1995/076/7/8/2.11]

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BRV3508359
Image title
A Kikuyu Home Guard on duty, 1953 (b/w photo) [1995/076/7/8/2.11]
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British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, Bristol Archives, UK
Medium
black and white photograph
Date
1953 AD (C20th AD)
Image description

A young man in a tattered jacket stands barefoot on a hillside, holding a spear. A white cloth around his arm and head indicates he is a member of the Kikuyu Home Guard. Original typescript caption: A Kikuyu Home Guard on duty, during the round-up of a gang which had come out of the forest. The Guards tie bits of cloth round their heads to distinguish friend from foe. Many of them are armed with spears and swords, a few with rifles. The[y] are volunteers and unpaid and have killed or captured many hundreds of armed gangsters.

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© Bristol Archives / Huxley Collection / Bridgeman Images
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weapon / standing / fifties / landscape / man / 50s / colony / ragged / militia / revolt / guarding / africa / armed / british commonwealth / british empire / weapon / conflict / pole / colonialism / guard / 1950s / social history / political history / photography / rebellion / resistance / colonial / threadbare / male / uprising / staff / walking stick / paramilitary / hillside / kenyan / Kenya / mau mau / anti-mau / African / headscarf / kikuyu / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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