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Title
Two African women, Utengule, Tanzania
Creator
Unknown
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
"Utengule. Perlenflechterinnen." ("Utengule. Female plaiters of beads."). In front of a grass-roofed house there are two African women, both wearing bead necklaces, bracelets and a belt of beads around the hips. The woman on the left is seated
the other standing women is pregnant and has a painted navel.
Type
image
Format
2 copies
photographic prints, 8.1 x 10.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8651 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07712
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8651
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-2-07712.jpg
Subject
Jewelry
Customs and traditions
Women
Pregnancy
Double portraits
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Utengule
Relation
Zwei Safwa-Mädchen in Perlenkleidung." ("Two Safwa girls with beads clothes."). In: Bernd Arnold: Steuer und Lohnarbeit im Südwesten von Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1891 bis 1916, p. 383/414. Münster, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1994
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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