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Title
Vultures eating carrion, Ethiopia
Creator
Waßmann, Dietrich Sr
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
"Geier beim Aasfressen (tote Kühe)." ("Vultures eating carrion (dead cows).") Photograph of vultures next to a dead cow.
Separate note reading: "Aasgeier, die von ihrer hässlichen Mahlzeit abgelassen haben, als Dietrich mit dem Apparat sich ihnen näherte, aber voll Gier schauen sie hinab zur toten Kuh, die links im Schatten der Mimose liegt" ("Vultures having refrained from their ugly meal as Dietrich approached them with the camera, but full of greed they look down to the dead cow that is lying to the left in the shadow of the mimosa").
Cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 848.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
10 x 7 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-ELM-AE-847.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-85174
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-847.jpg
Subject
Birds
Wild animals
Trees
Vultures
Animals
General views
Place
Africa
Ethiopia
Source
ELM/AE/Fotos - 847 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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