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Title: Head portrait of a Yao, Malawi, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1910
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: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “Yao head". Head portrait of a young person smiling at the camera wearing a beaded necklace. The person is Wayao, from the Yao tribe. They are a predominately Muslim people centred around the Southern end of Lake Malawi. In the nineteenth century they traded primarily in Ivory and slaves and had close links with Arab traders.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 7.2 x 9.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75658589-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80061
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658589-1.jpg
Subject: Children (people by age group)
Ethnic groups
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1910
Place: Africa
Malawi
Southern
Source: Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658587 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from mission fields, Nyasaland (Malawi), Africa
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