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The document provides background information on the Somali ethnographic collection kept at the British Museum. It describes how the collection was acquired through donations and purchases from British officers and colonial administrators who visited Somalia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the region was part of the British Empire. The largest donations came from Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, A.T. Curle, Colonel H.G.C. Swayne, and the Kenya Empire Exhibition Committee. The collectio

Author

Ibrahim Abdi Geele

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