Image / African musician, Pretoria, South Africa, 1902

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Title: African musician, Pretoria, South Africa, 1902
Creator: Borel, Arnold, 1871-1911
Date Created and/or Issued: 1902
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Ma - tshopi frappant des timbila. Prétoria [Pretoria] 1902" ("Ma - tshopi playing the timbila. Prétoria [Pretoria] 1902") Photograph of a man of African origin playing the xylophone. He sits in front of a corrugated iron shack and looks at the photographer.
Photographie d'un homme d'origine africaine jouant du xylophone. Il est assis devant un bâtiment en tôle ondulée et regarde en direction du photographe.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m64265 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv110-054-766
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64265
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv110-054-766.jpg
Subject: Clothing
Musical instruments
Musicians
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period: 1902
Place: Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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