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Title: Place of abandonment of corpses of twins in Kigarama, Tanzania, 1938-1939
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: Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Aussetzungsstätte für Zwillingsleichen in Kigarama" ("Place of abandonment of corpses of twins in Kigarama"). A place with several objects surrounded by grass and shrubs.
[Visitation Vogt]
Johannes Vogt was bishop of the Moravian Church and has visited Tanganyika in the years 1938 and 1939.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints
5.1 x 5.1 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m14894 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-VisV-11709
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14894
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-VisV-11709.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Abandoned children
Social exclusion
General views
Time Period: 1938/1939
Place: Africa
Kigarama
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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