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"Die Konfirmanden von Aira" ("The confirmands of Ayra"). Group portrait of one Ethiopian woman and four Ethiopian men. To the left Dietrich Waßmann Sr., to the right Hermann Hornbostel, both wearing clerical robes. In front to the right two children are partly visible. Separate note reading: "Die ersten 5 Konfirmanden in Aira. Der kleinste rec[h]ts ist auch ein Sohn einer Zauberin, die eine Zeitlang im Gottesdienst immer fürchterlich schrie" ("The smallest to the right is also a son of a witch who for a while used to cry terribly during church service").
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image
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1 photograph: b&w 10 x 7 cm. photographs photographic prints
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