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Title
Carrying grass, Ayra, Ethiopia, ca.1951-1952
Date Created and/or Issued
1951-08/1952
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
Archiv des Evangelisch-lutherischen Missionswerkes (ELM), Georg-Haccius-Str. 9, 29320, Hermannsburg, Germany
Evangelisches-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM)
Hermannsburg Mission
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Description
"Beim Grastragen" ("Carrying grass"). Close-up view of two Ethiopian women and further back two other persons standing amidst bundles of grass. The woman in front is wearing a chain with a cross around her neck.
Separate note reading: "Tief Atem holend werfen sie ihre schwere Last ab. Der Mann hat gut Lachen, der hat nur zwei Bündel getragen" ("Drawing a deep breath they throw away their heavy loads. It's all very well for the man to laugh, he has carried only two bundles").
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
10.5 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-ELM-AE-911.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-85238
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-911.jpg
Subject
Women
Men
Employes
Building materials
Workers
General views
Time Period
1951-08/1952
Place
Africa
Ayra
Ethiopia
Source
ELM/AE/Fotos - 911 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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