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Title
Children pounding corn, Ayra, Ethiopia
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
"Kinder beim Stampfen" ("Children pounding"). Photograph of two small children pounding corn in front of a house. They wear shirts and their heads are partly shaven. In the background a fence and the wall of a house are visible. A pestle and an axe are leaning to the wall.
Separate note reading: "Sohn und Tochter von Gudetta müssen für die Mutter Mais stampfen. Rechts ein Beil, wie sie in Aira angefertigt werden" ("Son and daughter of Guddataa have to pound corn for the mother. To the right an axe, the way they are made in Ayra").
Cf. pictures nos. ELM/AE/Fotos - 965, 966.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
10.5 x 7.5 cm.
photographs
photographic prints
Identifier
IMP-ELM-AE-964.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-85291
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-ELM-AE-964.jpg
Subject
Children
Food preparation
Mortars
Cooking
General views
Place
Africa
Ayra
Ethiopia
Source
ELM/AE/Fotos - 964 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Hermannsburg Mission, 1888-1958
impa-m59833

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