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Title: Masai warrior, Tanzania, ca. 1900-1914
Creator: Schanz, Johannes (?), 1876-1963
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1914
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Contact: Prof. Adam Jones, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig ,Postfach 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Deutschland; mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de <mailto:mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de>; Phone: +49(0341) 97-37030; Fax: +(49) (0341) 97-37048
Contact: Prof. Adam Jones, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Deutschland; mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de; Phone: +49 (0341) 97-37030; Fax: +(49) (0341) 97-37048
Jones, Adam
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mgrosze@uni-leipzig.de
Description: "Masai-Krieger, Deutsch-Ost-Afrika." ("Masai warrior, German East Africa."). A seated man with headdress, earrings, and necklaces. He is wearing 'traditional' clothes. The image is taken in profile.
Cf. Album 7, photo no. 24(415). -- Postcard published by the Leipzig Mission. -- The postcard was sent on 9/11/1917. -- Probably photographed by Johannes Schanz (1876-1963) was a missionary of the Leipzig Mission. He served in Moshi and Mamba from 1901 to 1910.
Type: image
Format: colored photograph, 8.9 x 13.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11928 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-LPZ-CC_28P
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11928
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-CC_28P.jpg
Subject: Men
African cultures
Portraits
Time Period: 1900/1914
Place: Africa
Tanzania
Relation: Masaikrieger." ("Masai warrior."). In: Schanz, J. "Am Fusse der Bergriesen Ostafrikas", p. 84. Leipzig: Verlag der evang.-luth. Mission, 1912
Afrika 3
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
impa-m1

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