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Note: Als Nr. 52 publiziert im Album 'Achtzig Ansichten von der Goldküste (Westafrika) nach Originalaufnahmen des Missionars Fritz Ramseyer', Neuenburg 1895. - Bildlegende im Album: "Orchester des Häuptlings. - Jeder Häuptling hat seine Musikbande. Die Instrumente bestehen besonders in Trommeln verschiedener Grösse und Form, auf welche man mit Hacken ähnlichen Stäben schlägt. Die Haupttrommel, die auf dem Marsche auf dem Kopfe getragen wird, ist mit Menschenschädeln geschmückt. Zwei Hornbläser, links und rechts, tragen auf ihren Händen ausgehöhlte Elephantenzähne, welche mit Menschenkiefern der Feinde verziert sind." Note translation: Published as no 52 in the album 'Achtzig Ansichten von der Goldküste (Westafrika) nach Originalaufnahmen des Missionars Fritz Ramseyers', (= 'Eighty pictures of the Gold Coast (West Africa) photographed by the missionary Fritz Ramseyer'), Neuenburg 1895. - Caption there: "The Chief's orchestra. Every chief has his band. The instruments are mostly drums of different sizes and shapes which they beat with drum-sticks shaped like mattocks. The main drum, which is carried on someon's head when they are on the move, is decorated with human skulls. Two horn-blowers, right and left, are holding up hollowed-out elephant tusks, which are decorated with the jaw-bones of enemies." - The French version adds that the two persons with gold plates on their chests are "souls" of the Chief. (PJ):
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image
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b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 13.8 x 19.0 cm.
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