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Title
Cooking a meal at a smouldering waddessa tree, Ethiopia, 1952
Creator
Waßmann, Dietrich Sr
Date Created and/or Issued
1952-03
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
Archiv des Evangelisch-lutherischen Missionswerkes (ELM), Georg-Haccius-Str. 9, 29320, Hermannsburg, Germany
Evangelisches-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM)
Hermannsburg Mission
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Description
"Ein Stück Fleisch wird z. Spießbraten hergerichtet. Ein Araber streut Salz auf das Fleisch." ("A piece of meat is being prepared for roasting. An Arab sprinkles salt on the meat.") Photograph of Paulo Lombardo squatting on the ground and a standing Arab man preparing a meal.
Separate note reading: "Es soll abgekocht werden ohne ein Feuer anzuzünden. Lombardo schneidet das Fleisch in Streifen und ein Araber, der neben uns im Schlamm feststeckt, streut Salz darauf" ("It shall be boiled without lighting a fire. Lombardo cuts the meat into strips and an Arab who is stuck in the mud next to us sprinkles salt over it").
Photograph taken during Dietrich Waßmann's journey from Ayra to Adis Abeba.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
10.5 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-ELM-AE-942.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-85269
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-942.jpg
Subject
Lombardo, Paulo
Men
Cooking
Trees
Food preparation
General views
Time Period
1952-03
Place
Africa
Ethiopia
Source
ELM/AE/Fotos - 942 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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