A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland / The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas

by Meg Gehrts

[INDEX]

• Accra, [286], [303], [307]
  
• Agbandi, [62];
  
  • native giant at, [63]
• Aledjo, beauty and healthfulness of, [85];
  
  • mission station at, [86];
  • grass fires at, [87], [281]
• Alfred, our interpreter, [54], [102], [103], [169], [244], [309]
  
• Anâ, native village, [57], [60]
  
• Antelope, [134], [151], [152], [153]
  
• Arrows, poisoned, European shot by, [142]
  
• Ashantis, [159]
  
• Asmani, Schomburgk's personal "boy," [179], [229], [309]
  
• Atakpame, [28];
  
  • Catholic Mission at, [50], [63], [186], [275], [284], [286], [295]
• Audassi, [66]
  
• Babies, native, [270]
  
• Bafilo, the bairam festival at, [90];
  
  • cotton industry at, [92];
  • artificial "pearls" made at, [95], [251]
• Banjeli, [237]; beautiful situation of, [238];
  
  • arrival of mail at, [241];
  • a pig purchased at, [242];
  • punishing carriers at, [244];
  • chief of, [245], [249], [250]
• Bapure, [112]
  
• Bassari, [239], [241];
  
  • iron market at, [247], [250], [251];
  • station house at, [252];
  • Mr. Muckè, Sub-District Commissioner of, [252];
  • our house at, [253];
  • I entertain the wives of the Mallam Mohammed at, [257], [291]
• Bats, a plague of, [139];
  
  • as food, [225]
• Beapabe, native town, [251]
  
• Bedford, Duke of, [19]
  
• Beer, native, [111]
  
• Bees, wild, [259]
  
• Beetles, beautiful, [240]
  
• Berger, Dr., [57] et seq.
  
• Betrothals in infancy of native girls, [264]
  
• Birds, valuable feather-bearing in Northern Togo, [149], [150], [154]
  
• Bremen, S.M.S., [26]
  
• Buffalo, [20]
  
• Butter, native, [139]
  
• Bwete, native village, [145]
  
• Cameras, damage to by heat, [136]
  
• Cameroons, wireless station in, [299]
  
• Chameleons, [209]
  
• "Chief's mail," [184], [185]
  
• Childbirth amongst native women, [268]
  
• Children, native, government education of, [290]
  
• Cinema acting, on board ship, [21];
  
  • in Madeira, [24];
  • at Kamina, [33];
  • at Paratau, [77];
  • at Lome, [305]
• Cooking, native, [275]
  
• Corn-bins, curious, at Tschopowa, [224]
  
• Cotton industry, native, [92] et seq.
  
• Cowrie shells, as money, [97]
  
• Crocodiles, [145], [189], [190]
  
• Dagomba tribe, [214]
  
• Dahomeyans, [159]
  
• Death, native ceremonies at, [261], [262]
  
• Dedaure, Mallam of, [288]
  
• Dehn, Mr. and Mrs., [291]
  
• Djabotaure, [64];
  
  • adventure at, [65], [293]
• Djereponi, [208]
  
• Elegante Welt, German fashion paper, [241]
  
• Eleonore Woermamm, mail steamer, [310], [311]
  
• Elephants, [18];
  
  • old spoor of, [121]
• Fahnenfeld, Baron Codelli von, [29], [31], [36], [47], [196], [292], [296];
  
  • Baroness Codelli, [297], [301], [302]
• Fetish groves, hidden practices in, [273]
  
• Fever, [36], [101], [108]
  
• Films, industrial, at Bafilo, [92] et seq., [97];
  
  • ethnological, at Mangu, [136];
  • travel, at Sumbu, [191];
  • historical, at Mangu, [200], [201];
  • Konkombwa, [218];
  • hippopotami, [225];
  • iron industry, at Banjeli, [246];
  • at Bassari, [257]
• Fishing by natives in the Oti, [135]
  
• Francolin, a kind of partridge, [134], [149]
  
• Fulani, [137], [156], [159], [180]
  
• Fulbe, [137]
  
• Gerin-kuka, boisterous welcome to by the Konkombwa people, [115];
  
  • rest-house at, [117];
  • native "songu" at, [118]
• Gourma, [138], [141], [142], [168], [176]
  
• Grass fires, [143], [146]
  
• Grey, Hon. W. H., [286]
  
• Grouse, remarkable incident in connection with, [206]
  
• Gruner, Dr., [140]
  
• Hagenbeck, Carl, [19]
  
• Hammock travelling, delights of in the African bush, [61];
  
  • being "sea-sick" in one, [66], [185]
• Harmattan, [76];
  
  • at Mangu, [131];
  • a meteorological mystery, [198]
• Hausas, [202], [203], [219], [225]
  
• "Hausa load," [243]
  
• Henny Woermamm, mail steamer, [21], [22], [26]
  
• Hippopotami, [123], [146], [185] et seq., [225]
  
• —— pygmy, [19], [185]
  
• Hirschfeld, Captain von, [125], [127], [128], [132], [133], [137], [140], [143], [155], [199], [203], [205], [243], [253]
  
• Hodgson, James, our camera man, [20], [50], [52], [97], [99], [100], [101], [119], [123], [124], [135], [136], [148], [150], [152], [156], [172], [174], [187], [189], [203], [206], [216], [225], [233], [237], [250], [256], [305]
  
• Horses, our, waiting for us near Sokode, [67];
  
  • am badly kicked by my favourite one, [83];
  • accident to one, [109], [195], [286]
• Hyena trapped, [138]
  
• Ibubu, native village, [233];
  
  • "Roman Fort" at, [233];
  • trouble with carriers at, [235];
  • arrest of chief of, [239];
  • woman carriers from, [239], [243]
• Insect pests, [38], [134]
  
• Iron industry, native, at Banjeli, [245] et seq.
  
• Jewellery, native, [260]
  
• Johnston, Sir Harry, [248]
  
• Joyce, Atho, Mr., [248]
  
• Kabre Mountains, [137]
  
• Kabrischika, native boy, saves my baggage from fire, [298]
  
• Kabu, welcome hospitality at, [111]
  
• Kabures, native tribe, [63]
  
• Kaiser's birthday, [203]
  
• Kamaa, river, [253], [280]
  
• Kamina, wireless station at, [29];
  
  • my house at, [29];
  • life at, [30] et seq.;
  • an adventure, [48], [196], [292], [295], [296] et seq.
• Kara, river, [122]
  
• Katscha, river, [250], [251]
  
• Kersting, Dr., [70], [85], [90], [234], [252], [254]
  
• Kola nuts, [219], [259]
  
• Konkombwa, first contact with, [112];
  
  • boisterous welcome by at Gerin-Kuka, [115], [138], [147], [211] et seq.;
  • dancers, [217] et seq., [231], [234], [236], [239], [247]
• Kuepers, Mr., Government schoolmaster at Sokode, [68], [278], [286], [288], [289], [292]
  
• Kugnau, native village, [227];
  
  • incident with the Konkombwa at, [231], [232], [237]
• Lange, Mr., engineer, [57]
  
• Las Palmas, [25], [310]
  
• Leopard, adventure with a, [100], [194], [196]
  
• Lizards, [38], [194]
  
• Lome, capital and port of Togo, [21], [27], [184], [253], [284], [303], [304], [305], [307]
  
• Madeira, [21] et seq., [196]
  
• Magu, native village, [147], [197]
  
• Malfakasa, [280];
  
  • the outlaw of, [283]
• Mallam Mohammed, of Bassari, [257];
  
  • his house, [258];
  • his wives, [259]
• Mangu, northernmost Government station in Togo, [125];
  
  • Mohammedans in, [130];
  • timber plantations in, [130];
  • new station house at, [131];
  • climate of, [131];
  • Christmas at, [133];
  • New Year's Eve festivities at, [133];
  • trees destroyed by beetles at, [134];
  • prisoners, native, at, [137];
  • stone quarry at, [137];
  • plague of bats at, [139];
  • native soldiers at, [199], [200];
  • filming Togo history at, [201], [202];
  • celebrating the Kaiser's birthday at, [203];
  • departure from, [205], [251], [278]
• Manns, Lieutenant, [306]
  
• Marabou stork, discovered in Togo by Major Schomburgk, [154];
  
  • feathers, [154]
• Marriage customs, native, [264]
  
• Mashukulumbwe people, anecdote concerning, [115]
  
• Massow House, at Bassari, [252]
  
• Mecklenburg, Duke of, Governor of Togo, [28], [51], [141], [231], [232], [305], [306], [309]
  
• Messa, our cook, supposed desertion of, [53] et seq.;
  
  • returns with a young wife, [55];
  • he annexes our dining-table, [84], [160], [169], [180], [230], [277], [278], [309]
• Monkey, our pet, [146], [243], [303]
  
• Monkeys, wild, [47];
  
  • shooting a "dog" monkey, [96]
• Mosquitoes, [31], [122], [144], [229]
  
• Moving Picture Sales Agency, London, [184], [286]
  
• Muckè, Mr., of Bassari, [252], [254], [255], [256], [292]
  
• Natives, as "supers," [33];
  
  • averse to being photographed, [33];
  • views of on matrimony, &c., [42] et seq.;
  • perversity of, [51];
  • as carriers, [112];
  • wars, inter-tribal, [200];
  • as handicraftsmen, [247];
  • school for at Bassari, [258];
  • at Sokode, [288]
• Najo, native village, [197]
  
• Nambiri, [209]; village chief of, [213], [249]
  
• Nebel, Mr. Kay H., [67];
  
  • accident while acting with, [77], [88], [89];
  • leaves for Europe, [91]
• Njamassila, [60]
  
• "Odd Man Out," dramatic film, [21], [24], [91], [92]
  
• Ostriches, [203], [234], [246], [303]
  
• Oti, river, [122], [126], [134], [141], [144], [147], [148], [151], [156], [185], [188], [192], [227], [233]
  
• "Outlaw of the Sudu Mountains," dramatic film, [86];
  
  • accident while rehearsing in, [88]
• Oysters, fresh-water, in the Oti River, [192]
  
• "Palaver," a woman, [101] et seq.;
  
  • a man, [104];
  • at Unyogo, over a soldier's wife, [207]
• Panscheli, native village, [142], [185], [186], [188]
  
• Paratau, [69];
  
  • native market at, [73];
  • children at, [74];
  • an unhealthy camp, [76], [278], [282], [291]
• Parpart, Herr von, [261], [285], [291]
  
• Plantations, timber, near Mangu, [130];
  
  • near Bassari, [254]
• Poisons, kinds used by natives on their arrows, [142]
  
• Polygamy, [267]
  
• Porteous, Dr., [143]
  
• Potatoes, a luxury in Togo, [278]
  
• Quinine, importance of in West Africa, [50]
  
• Ramadam, Mohammedan fast, [65]
  
• Rentzel, Lieutenant von, [28]
  
• Royal Anthropological Institute, [201]
  
• Royal Geographical Society, [201], [248]
  
• Salt, paying carriers in, [118];
  
  • as currency, value of in Northern Togo, [161], [171]
• Schomburgk, Major Hans, [17] et seq., [31], [32], [34], [35], [36], [38], [40], [50], [52], [55], [57], [61], [72], [78], [85], [88], [89], [95], [97], [100], [102], [104], [106], [110], [113], [115], [121], [123], [131], [134], [139], [140], [141], [144], [146], [147], [149], [152], [156], [170], [190], [195], [196], [203], [211], [223], [225], [227], [233], [236], [245], [252], [287]
  
• Sleeping sickness, [287]
  
• Soap, native made, [267]
  
• Sokode, [68], [103], [159], [186], [234], [261], [283], [284], [285], [288], [292]
  
• Soldiers, native, [199], [200]
  
• "Songu," native rest-house, [137]
  
• Sumbu, native village, [156], [164] et seq.;
  
  • inhabitants of, [171], [177]
• Snakes, adventure with a venomous, [100], [183]
  
• Sudu Mountains, [284]
  
• Tabalo Mountain, [282]
  
• Tamberma Fort, [128];
  
  • and people, [129], [130], [202]
• Tax, head, native, [129]
  
• Teneriffe, [25]
  
• "Tick-birds," [188]
  
• Tim plain, [284]
  
• Tschaudjo, native tribe, [69] et seq.;
  
  • clever horsemanship of, [73];
  • mounted supers, [77], [265], [274], [285]
• Tschokossi, native tribe, [128], [141], [145], [147], [156], [168], [176], [185], [192], [201], [265], [274]
  
• Tschopowa, welcome by natives to, [221];
  
  • ceremonial dance at, [222];
  • marabou feathers worn by natives at, [222], [223];
  • big baobab tree at, [224];
  • curious corn-bins at, [225];
  • bats at, [225]
• Tsetse-fly, [284], [287]
  
• Turtles in the Oti River, [190]
  
• Unyogo, [205];
  
  • a "woman palaver" at, [207]
• Uro Djabo, paramount chief of the Tschaudjo, [69] et seq., [213]
  
• Uro-Ganedo-Bo, [282]
  
• Village, native, remarkable fortified, [164] et seq.
  
• Vultures as scavengers, [98], [139]
  
• Vollbehr, Herr, paints my portrait, [306]
  
• Widows, hard fate of, [274]
  
• Wedding ceremonies, native, [265]
  
• "White Goddess of the Wangora," dramatic film, [32] et seq., [90], [304]
  
• Windhuk, wireless station at, [299]
  
• Wireless telegraphy between Kamina and Berlin, [300]
  
• Women and girls, native, [40] et seq.;
  
  • a young philosopher, [45];
  • filming the life of a native wife, [46];
  • women weavers at Bafilo, [94];
  • "abduction" of a girl, [102];
  • modesty of, [105];
  • wild at Sumbu, [164], [175], [200];
  • Konkombwa at Nambiri, [215];
  • a conjugal quarrel, [216];
  • as carriers, [238], [239];
  • slaves as iron miners at Banjeli, [246];
  • marriage customs, [264];
  • infant betrothals, [264];
  • illegitimate births, customs regarding, [264], [265];
  • wedding ceremonies, [265], [266];
  • polygamy, [267];
  • childbirth, [268];
  • fetish women, [272];
  • introcision, rite of, [272];
  • initiation ceremonies at puberty, [273]
• "Zoo," London, two of Major Schomburgk's pygmy "hippos" in, [19];
  
  • Hamburg, [187], [235]

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[Transcribers' Notes]

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; inconsistent hyphenation retained when there was no predominant usage.

Original book spelled "Ramadan" as "Ramadam" three times, and as "Ramadan" once; none changed.

In the [Foreword], "Woermamm" is a misspelling for "Woermann".

Page [88]: "eerie" may be a misprint for "eyrie".