Rare Casement photographs of Amazon tribe found

A UNIVERSITY researcher has discovered photographic images of two native Amazonians who were brought to Britain in 1911 as part of efforts to highlight human rights abuses.

Dr Lesley Wylie, a lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester, believes the images, which were presumed lost, are those of a man and a boy shipped to London by Irish revolutionary Roger Casement, who was hanged for treason in 1916.

Dr Wylie made the discovery among a photographic collection relating to the period of the rubber boom in Putumayo — a border region in the Amazon — held by a museum at the University of Cambridge.