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Title
Young water carrier, Blantyre, 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
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
"Water-carrying." Portrait of a young child with a water jug upon her head. She is wearing a necklace and sarong, also known as a kanga or kikoi, around her waist.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10.7 x 15.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75658784-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80126
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658784-1.jpg
Subject
Domestic life
Water carriers
Children (people by age group)
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Africa
Blantyre
Malawi
Southern region
Source
Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658782 [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
image/tiff

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