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Description
Annotation translation: "The artist's tent stands among the round Bakossi huts built from termite-proof trunks of tree-ferns. The village lies about 1,000m high on the slopes of Manenguba." "Vollbehr Art Postcards, Cameroon." "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon." Annotation: "Zwischen den kreisrunden, aus ameisensicheren Farnbaumstämmen erbauten Bakosihütten steht das Zelt des Malers. Das Dorf liegt ca. 1000 m hoch am Abhang des Manengubagebirges." - "Vollbehr-Künstlerpostkarten 'Kamerun'." - "Alleinvertrieb: Basler Missionshandlung, Duala (Kamerun)." - "Genau so ein Zelt hatte ich öfters wenn es mir die Feinde nicht gerade abgenommen hatten. [Handschrift auf der Kartenrückseite]." (MS 04.1998). Note: Vorlage: Aquarell von Ernst Vollbehr.
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
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