0:00:05 Introduction of taxation, Warrant Chiefs, riots; Margaret Green’s work on Ibo women; tax assessments on adult males
0:07:15 Other jobs as Colonial Officer; travel through the district; tables and tin baths; life in camp; Colonial outfitters and tinned food; whisky
0:15:00 Landscape – tropical rain forest; slash and burn agriculture; hoes
0:18:30 Religion; masquerades; interest in African art; photography; biometric photographs; masks given to Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1937
0:26:00 Skulls given to Department of Anatomy, Oxford; collecting skulls; Dudley Buxton replaced by Le Gros Clark and skulls probably went to South Kensington; attitude of villagers to removal of skulls
0:29:20 Mask collection; masquerades performed by members of secret societies; reason for own interest in masks; desire to record the use of masks
0:33:45 Other objects collected included stone kelts “thunder stones”
0:35:30 Interest in anthropology stimulated by R.R. Marett at Oxford; returned to Oxford on leave and gained Certificate in Anthropology in early thirties; Oxford anthropology – Marett taught social anthropology, Henry Balfour curator of Pitt Rivers taught material culture, and Prof. Thompson in the Anatomy School taught physical anthropology, also Tom Penniman
0:39:23 Anthropology at London University; reflections on Oxford staff; fellow students – Culwick & wife, Rupert East
0:43:40 Margery Perham and Colonial History; Malinowski seminar; Nadel
0:48:30 Eastern Nigeria in the thirties; effect of massacre of market women in late twenties; later treatment of rioters
0:53:28 Own marriage to Ursula (who is also interviewed); meeting in London, July 1939; marriage; children