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Title
Men making mud bricks for a self-help community center in Kaputa village
Creator
Cancel, Robert
Date Created and/or Issued
1976
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Zambian Storytellers
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" or any license applied to this work requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
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Rights Holder and Contact
Cancel, Robert
Description
The process is simple but laborious. Specific types of soil with properties that lend themselves to being mixed with water and some straw and baked in the sun, must be located, processed, set into wooden molds and left to harden in the sun.
6840-05 Kasaba Bay / Friends at Kasama / Chikoye Performers and Fishing Mweru Wantipa, etc. Airshots over Kenya 1976
Type
image
Form/Genre
photography
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb0859594t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Brick (clay product)
Rural areas
Workers
Building materials
Tabwa culture
Sun-dried brick
Development
Brickmaking
Mud
Photography
Kaputa District, Northern Province, Zambia
Zambia
Place
Kaputa District, Northern Province, Zambia
Zambia

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