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Title
A chief, South Africa
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
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Kreli, Kaffern-Häuptling" ("Kreli, Kaffir chief"). A man with a beard is wearing a shawl on his shoulder, a necklace and apparently some kind of earring.
[L.H. Reichelt's photo album] -- The picture was probably taken between 1860 and 1870.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
9.2 x 5.7 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15234 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-FSFA0001_0005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15234
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-FSFA0001_0005.jpg
Subject
Leadership
Men
Portraits
Place
Africa
South Africa
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
book: J. B. Peires. The Dead Will Arise. Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989
impa-m76

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