Homemade Mau Mau rifle, 1953 (c)
rifle, rifle
Accession Number
NAM.2001-04-102-1
Description
Mau Mau breech-loading rifle, 1952-1956. Handmade, with a very crude spring and pull action trigger mechanism. The barrel is a piece of pipe and the wooden furniture is bound with strips of tin cut from food tins; leather sling. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.
Campaigns
Kenya Emergency (Mau Mau Rebellion) (1952-1960)
People