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Title
African woman suffering from a snake bite, Kijunja, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
"Schlangenbissverletzung (Kijunja)[.] Dr. O. Fischer" ("Snake bite injury (Kijunja)[.] Dr. med. O. Fischer"). In the background banana trees
on the left some African men. In the foreground an old woman, seated beside a European nurse. Behind the woman stands an African man. The right hand of the woman is injured.
Cf. photo no. 8752.
Type
image
Format
color slide no. 8751
photographic prints, 8.2 x 11.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8777 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08751
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8777
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08751.jpg
Subject
Diseases
Old age
Group portraits
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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