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Annotation translation: "(Kumase)." Annotation: "(Kumase)." Note: Publiziert als Nr. 39 im Album 'Achtzig Ansichten von der Goldküste (Westafrika) nach Originalaufnahmen des Missionars Fritz Ramseyer', Neuenburg 1895. (RI) - Bildlegende im Album: "Missionar Ramseyer und Frau am Fuss eines Onyina-Baumes. - Dieser Baum, mit stacheliger Rinde, ist derjenige aus welchem die Eingeborenen ihre Kähne verfertigen. Die Frucht bildet eine Kapsel, die eine Art Seidenwolle enthält, welche zu Kopfkissen verwendet wird." (RI). - Nicht klar, ob Kumase oder Abetifi. (PST). Note translation: Published as no 39 in the album 'Eighty pictures of the Goldcoast (West Africa) by the missionary Fritz Ramseyer', Neuchâtel 1895. - Caption in the album: "The missionary Ramseyer with wife at the foot of an Onyina tree. - This is the tree with a thorny bark out of which the natives make their boats. The capsule of the fruit contains a kind of cotton-wool which is used for cushions." - For same place same scene see photo D-30.16.057. (PST). - Not clear whether Kumase or Abetifi. (PST).
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image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, collodion 15.4 x 11.1 cm.
Ramseyer, Friedrich August Louis (Mr) Ramseyer-Bontems, Rosa Luise (Mrs) Domestic servant f Fur Girl Group Hat Missionary f Missionary m Silk-cotton tree
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