Image / Travellers on their way to Toamasina, Madagascar, ca.1892

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Title: Travellers on their way to Toamasina, Madagascar, ca.1892
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1892
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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
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Description: "Reiseminde oktbr. 1892. (På veien fra Tamatave)" ("Travelling memory October 1892. ) A travel from Tamatave)"). There are a total of five carrying chairs, three for women and two for men.Each fianjana needed 8 carriers, 4 to carry and 4 to take over. Luggage were carried by thers, so you need quite many people to move around. This was the traditional way of moving araound for all people who could afford to pay for it.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 10.8 x 15.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m6148 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A11c-1293
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6148
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A11c-1293.jpg
Subject: Transport
Indigenous populations
Topographical views
Carriers
Time Period: circa 1892
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Tamatave (Toamasina)
Source: NMS/Photo/A11cMa/1293 [File]

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