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Title: Crocodile hunting, Shire River, Malawi, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1900
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: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: Group portrait of two European hunters standing next to a crocodile. Several indigenous men hold up the tail. The two men were travelling aboard the Lady Nyasa on the Lower Shire River en route to Blantyre then onto Lake Nyasa [Malawi]. ❧ Album containing photographs recording a voyage up the Shire River and scenes from the Livingstonia mission.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 9.8 x 7.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75659429-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80261
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75659429-1.jpg
Subject: Crocodiles
Hunting
Portraits
Trophies (objects)
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Africa
Malawi
Southern
Source: Acc.7548/F/31 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75659427 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Livingstonia and Lake Nyasa (Malawi), Africa, ca.1895-1905
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
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