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Annex to CO 822/148/2
Catalogue reference: CO 822/148/3
Date: 1950 - 1951
Annex to CO 822/148/2
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Return of the skull of the late Chief Mkwawa to Tanganyika. Includes 23 photographs...
Catalogue reference: CO 822/770
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This record is about the Return of the skull of the late Chief Mkwawa to Tanganyika. Includes 23 photographs... dating from 1954-1955 in the series Colonial Office: East Africa: Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 822/770
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1955
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- EAF 13/172/01
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C570704/
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CO 822
Colonial Office: East Africa: Original Correspondence
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