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Title
Controller for harvest and selling of bananas, Kyimbila, Tanzania, ca.1929-1930
Creator
Baudert, D
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1930
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
"Kyimbila[.] Ein Mann, der das Abnehmen der Bananen und deren Verkauf in Zeiten der Essensknappheit überwacht." ("Kyimbila[.] A man, who supervises the picking of bananas and their selling in times of food shortage."). In the background there are a house and three men standing beside a tree. In the front on the left a standing man dressed with a garment probably made of dried banana leaves sounds a local horn.
Photo taken during the visitation of Brother Samuel Baudert 1929/1930.
Type
image
Format
color silde no. 6679
photographic prints, 6.7 x 11.0 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m3696 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06679
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3696
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-06679.jpg
Subject
Agricultural workers
Agricultural products
Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1930
Place
Africa
Kyimbila
Tanzania
Relation
Ein Bananen- u. Essenswächter für die Zeit der Essensknappheit. Niemand darf ohne seine Erlaubnis von eigenen Bananen u. Feldern ernten oder gar an andere verkaufen." ("A banana and food guard for the time of food shortage. Without his permission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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