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Description
Annotation translation: "Kribi is the most important trading-point in Southern Cameroon, handling rubber and ivory. The natives sit on their canoes and use leg-movements in the water to propel them". "Vollbehr Art Postcards, Cameroon." "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon." Annotation: "Kribi ist der wichtigste Handelsplatz von Süd-Kamerun, namentlich für Kautschuk und Elfenbein. Die Eingeborenen pflegen reitend auf den Kanus zu sitzen und sich durch Beinbewegungen im Wasser vorwärts zu bewegen." - "Vollbehr-Künstlerpostkarten 'Kamerun'." - "Alleinvertrieb: Basler Missionshandlung, Duala (Kamerun)." Note: Vorlage: Aquarell von Ernst Vollbehr. - Von Prof. T. A. Freyvogel, Tropeninstitut Basel erhalten. Note translation: "Original: water-colour by Ernst Vollbehr". Stamped: "-- Mai 1975."
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
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