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Adventures on the Upper Nile

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 2
Scope and Contents Charles Oliver O'Donnell (AMNH fellow) and James Lippitt Clark (AMNH vice-director of preparation and exhibition) traveled by steamer, in 1931, up the Nile from Khartoum to Shambe in the Sudan to collect giant eland for the AMNH Hall of African Mammals. Most of the footage was taken from the steamer, and consists of panoramic views of life along the Nile, and of the activities of the expedition staff and the shikaris (native hunters) on board ship. Expedition staff appearing in the film are:...
Dates: 1931

African Lions / LR "John W. Hope"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 606

Baboons / LR "John W. Hope"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 604

Baluchitherium / Base "John W. Hope 1935"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 618

Baluchitherium / LL "John W. Hope 1936"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 617

Buffaloes / LR "John W. Hope"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 603

Gazelles / LR "John W. Hope"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 614

Giant Elands / LR "John W. Hope"

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Identifier: Art Survey No. 605