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Title: Hammock bearers, Kikuyu, Kenya, 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: "Hammock & Bearers". Exterior view showing a group of men carrying a large hammock, known as a machila, along a path between two hills. There are people in the distance on the right of the image, and foliage along side the path.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 9.5 x 12.3 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75658682-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80092
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75658682-1.jpg
Subject: Hammocks
Porters (baggage carriers)
Travel
Time Period: circa 1910
Place: Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Kikuyu
Source: Acc.7548/F/28 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75658680 [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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