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Title
Python, Makulane, Mozambique, 1901
Creator
Lenoir, David Paul
Date Created and/or Issued
1901
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
DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description
"Attaque fictive du python" ("Fictional attack on the python"). "Makulane. Le geste du python transpercé" ("Makulane. Piercing the python"). Photographie d'une mise en scène de chasse au python. Cinq garçons d'origine africaine sont debout autour d'un arbre dans lequel se trouve le cadavre d'un python. Ils tiennent des lances qu'ils pointent vers le serpent.Photograph of a hunting scene. Five boys of African origin stand around a tree from which hangs a dead python. They point spears at the snake.
Type
image
Format
glass photonegatives, b&w
12 x 16.3 cm.
Identifier
impa-m59327 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv021-165-053
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m59327
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv021-165-053.jpg
Subject
Animals
Boys
Hunting
Reptiles
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1901
Place
Africa
Makulane
Maputo
Mozambique
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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