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Title
Konde women mourning, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1929
Creator
Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Geschminkte Frauen bei der Totenklage. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Painted women mourning. Dr. O. Fischer"). In the background a thatched rectangular house and banana trees. In the foreground one seated and one crouching woman with a child on the back. Both have their faces, chests and legs painted with white stripes.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 6.3 x 8.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8743 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08696
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8743
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08696.jpg
Subject
Death
Women
Customs and traditions
Mourning
Group portraits
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa
Nyasa
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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