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Title
Paintings on a hut's wall, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1936
Creator
Schnabel, Ernst Hermann, 1904-1953
Date Created and/or Issued
1936-02
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Bilder von der bemalten Hüttenwand." ("Pictures painted on the wall of the hut."). Geometric figures and an animal that looks like a cow. Written on the wall in Swahili: "Nyati" ("Cape buffalo").
Cf. photo nos. 10335, 10336, 10337 and 10338. -- Ernst Hermann Schnabel (1904-1953) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in East Africa until the end of the 1930s. In 1934, he married Käthe Prellwitz in Kyimbila.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 8.9 x 6.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11306 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10339
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11306
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-4-10339.jpg
Subject
Housing design
Arts
Painting
Partial views
Time Period
1936-02
Place
Africa
Nyasa
Tanzania
Relation
So schmückte im Kondeland in Ostafrika ein eingeborener Künstler sein Haus zu seiner und aller Vorübergehenden Freude. Wir freuen uns mit." ("An indigenous artist decorated his house in Kondeland in East Africa to his pleasure and to the pleasure of pe
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 4
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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