Image / An elephant shot down, Rutenganio, Tanzania, ca.1898-1914

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Title: An elephant shot down, Rutenganio, Tanzania, ca.1898-1914
Creator: Stolz, Adolf Ferdinand, 1871-1917
Date Created and/or Issued: 1898/1914
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: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Ein erlegter Elefant bei der Farm Lehnin nahe Rutenganyo." ("A shot elephant at Lehnin farm near Rutenganio."). A large group of Africans standing behind a shot elephant lying on the ground facing frontwards. A European man is sitting on its belly. Imprinted on the image: "3217".
Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917) was a mission trader of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Ipanya from 1898 to 1902 and in Kyimbila from 1903 to 1914. He was responsible for the plantations in Kyimbila and Rutenganio. In 1898 he married Helene Elisabeth, née Kootz (1872-1899), in 1903 Anna, née Schulze.
Type: image
Format: colored slide no. 3217
photographic prints, 15.1 x 11.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m10767 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03217
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m10767
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-03217.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Wild animals
Hunting
Group portraits
Time Period: 1898/1914
Place: Africa
Rutenganio
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 1
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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