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Title
Chagga people, Tanzania, ca.1900-1914
Creator
Müller, Emil (1893-1920, 1931-1933)
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1914
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
Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig e.V., Paul-List-Str. 19, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Mission
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Description
Photograph of Chagga people. Eight standing children (mostly girls) are visible in the foreground, four men and one woman are standing behind them. One other man is sitting right in the middle. They are all dressed in cloths. In the background banana plants and a small house made of plant fibres and mud is visible.
Cf. picture no. 016_0007, Photographs of Emil Müller.
Emil Müller (1868-1940) was one of the founders of the missionary work of the Leipzig Mission in German East Africa. From 1893 to 1920 and from 1931 to 1933 he served the Leipzig Mission in Machame, a station founded in 1893. He is the author of a dictionary of the Chagga language published in 1947.
Type
image
Format
photographs
photographic prints, 8.7 x 6.3 cm.
Identifier
impa-m65924 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-0464.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65924
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-LPZ-ALBUM-04-0464.jpg
Subject
Girls
Women
Children
Ethnic groups
Traditional architecture
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1914
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Relation
Album 4
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Leipzig Mission, Germany, ca.1912-1917 & ca.1924-1938
impa-m246

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