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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3287/99/18
TitleGroup photo of Edith Lyttelton Gell with six other people, including Philip Lyttelton Gell (with walking stick) and three Africans including Lewanika (1855-1916), King of Barotseland, [?taken at Oxford]
Date[1901]
Extent1 item
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Administrative HistoryAccording to information provided by Lewanika's great-great granddaughter Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe in December 2016, the man seated on Lewanika's right is probably his Prime Minister, Ngambela Mokamba. The man seated on Lewanika's right is likely to be a Mosotho interpreter (who would translate between the Silozi and Sesotho languages).

on the left of the photograph, and a translator

The identities of the African subjects of this portrait were established with the help of
Ngambela Mokamba
A Musutu translator (name not known)
posture typically Musutu
The photograph of Mokamba bears clear resemblance to photographs in the possession of Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe
FormatPhotographic
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