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Description
Note: Ähnlich wie Bild D-30.22.012. (PST). - Als Nr. 71 publiziert im Album 'Quatre-vingts vues de la Côte d'Or d'Afrique d'après les originaux de M. Fritz Ramseyer', Neuchâtel 1895. - Bildlegende im Album: "Un imprimeur sur toile. - Les Achantis ont pour le deuil une étoffe spéciale appelée 'adenkra'. C'est celle que nous voyons étalée le long de la mureille. C'est un morceau de toile rousse que l'on étend sur le sol et sur laquelle, comme la gravure nous le montre, un imprimeur sur toile imprime, au moyen de formes trempées dans une couleur noire de sa fabrication, toutes sortes de figures bizarres." Note translation: Similar to photo D-30.22.012. (PST). - Published as no 71 in the French version of the album 'Eighty pictures of the Gold Coast (West Africa) by the missionary Fritz Ramseyer', Neuchâtel 1895. - Caption there: "Someone printing on cloth. The Asantes have a special cloth for mourning called 'adenkra'. It is what you can see spread out along the low wall in our picture. It is a piece of rust-red cloth which they stretch out on the ground and on which, as the picture shows us, a printer prints all sorts of bizarre figures by means of shapes dipped in a black dye of his own fabrication."
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 10.7 x 16.6 cm.
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