A group of African men pounding sugarcane in a hollowed-out tree and making beer from the mash. Photograph by H. Binks, ca.1900.

Previous title, replaced June 2022: A group of Africans, pounding sugarcane in a hollowed-out tree and making beer from the mash. Photograph by H. Binks, ca.1900.

Nairobi, [approximately 1900]

1 photograph : photoprint

Kikuyu's extracting sugarcane juice beer making H. Binks Nairobi copyright

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Wellcome Collection 537995i

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.