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(M)Barnots?. Arusha

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,8 X 8,2 Description: 8 young Arushaleute? or Maasai ( after circumcision?), spears, 1 person with plait hairstyle, other short hairs.

In: Picture archive >> Album 19 Legacy Leonhard Blumer

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2 circumcised boys

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,2 X 5,8. Description: white-painted faces, feather-hair ornaments, bows and arrows, herd of cattle in background, small boy (Maasai or Arusha?) on the left.

In: Picture archive >> Album 4

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A Kamba magician with the magic bottle

Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,8 X 11,9 Description: 2 rows of traditional round grass houses (5 in all), men and women sitting in front of them, man in front of them, dressed with cloth and cap, holding small calabash with opening towards them, oth...

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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A warrior

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,6 X 9,7. Description: Maasai or Arusha? shoulder-length braid, large knife and stick, wide right edge. Person, house with thatched roof i. Background. Reference: Album 19, No. 467 (10,7 X 8,1) &qu...

In: Picture archive >> Album 2 Leonhard Blumer

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After work is done it's good to drink beer

Photographer: ?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,3 X 9,8. Description: 9 women, partly clothed, partly dressed europ., 1 drinking calabash, 1 calabash on earth, small children, house (approx.) with roof made of plant fibres in the background.

In: Picture archive >> Album 4

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Bassutho kitchen with homemade pots

Phototype: Postcard (colored). Format: 9,0 X 14,0. Description: clothed with patterned scarves, shield and spear, in throwing position. Remark: See P39.

In: Picture archive >> postcard box >> Africa Series 2, Berlin Mission

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Big Laundry in Africa, Arusha 1922

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,2 X 5,2 Description: clothesline, in front the African Abel with tub and washboard, another one hanging laundry, Meru in the background. Reference: Cf. album 19, no. 380.

In: Picture archive >> Album 19 Legacy Leonhard Blumer

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Black tailor at work

Photographer: Hohlfeld?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,5 X 11,0. Description: Tailor with hat, sitting at the sewing machine in front of the house (clay walls, roof made of plant fibres), 4 other persons.

In: Picture archive >> Album 10

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Collecting medicinal herbs

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,8 X 11,4 Description: Sister Wärthl with basket full of plants, in the background Elisabeth and Dr. Kleff, banana grove. Reference: Cf. N. sheet 626 (11.1 X 8.3) "Lolkisale in Masailande, January 15, 1930. Meeting ...

In: Picture archive >> Album 20 Legacy Leonhard Blumer

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Corn pounding women

Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,5 X 5,5 Description: 2 mortars, 5 women with pestles, working, small children around them. Reference: Cf. printing templates pattern book, no. IXd/314, Auf. 310, no. 143, Diap. a.II47 (16,3 X 12,0) "Wapare-Men, wel...

In: Picture archive >> Album 6

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Dancer imitates a stalking European

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,3 X 8,3 Description: (in addition hang m.767) Dancer with whistle, one woman with whistle, one woman with whistle. Hand drum.

In: Picture archive >> Album 3 negatives of Wilhelm Guth

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Female costume students in Mamba

Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,8 X 11,9. Description: Church under construction on hill, group of 13 girls with European sister, clothed with cloths, some working with a hoe, almost identical with album 9, no. 78(36) (= artwork sample book IX / 307).

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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Four brothers in Mbungu, East Africa

Phototype: Postcard (colored). Format: 13,9 X 8,8. Description: 5 African women standing on the riverbank in a forest, dressed with long robes. Remark: Publisher of the ev. luther. Mission Leipzig, Series Africa No 4.

In: Picture archive >> postcard box

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From the Pare Mountains

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,7 X 9,6 Description: Girls and boys (European dressed), working with heels on a slope, cultivated country, 1 European? in the background.

In: Picture archive >> Album 22

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In the Masaisteppe

Photographer: Nüßler?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,9 X 8,3 Description: Steppe landscape, Maasai women sitting in circle, left 1 warrior with spear sitting, 1 wide. Person (African, European class).

In: Picture archive >> Album 1 negatives of Fritz Nüßler and Paul Schwär

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Indian shop in East Africa

Photographer: Black?. Phototype: Roll film print. Format: 8,3 X 5,3 Description: Canopy of a shop, man to sewing machine, other persons in front of/inside.

In: Picture archive >> Album 1 negatives of Fritz Nüßler and Paul Schwär

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Maasai women (picture without title, but title in album 12)

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 14,0 X 8,7. Description: 3 women, 2 of them in the foreground, packed donkey (e.g. with calabashes). Remark: Photo was inserted into album 12, because probably once photo corners were attached there (co...

In: Picture archive >> Album 12 Estate of Dr Friedrich Mergner

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Madschame style huts. Dancing Negroes (right).

Over a beer (left). Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,5 X 10,2. description: 2 houses (West-Kilimanjaro construction: covered with banana bark), hedge fence around farmstead, the "beer" group facing the camera's back, sitting on the grou...

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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Madschame women cooking beer

Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,9 X 10,9 Description: 4 women, with scarves around their hips, arm spirals, mucky ears and throat, standing between banana plants, with clay jugs on fire, back right house (West-Kilimanjaro construction: covered with b...

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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Masai dancing

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,3 X 6,2. Description: Warrior group with shields and spears, partly one after the other.

In: Picture archive >> Album 4

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Masai in war jewellery

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,2 X 5,9. Description: Group of warriors, spears, shields, 1 with headdress made of feathers, 1 with headdress made of hair. Reference: Cf. album 22, no. 2 (16,5 X 11,5) "Hirten-Häuschen und S...

In: Picture archive >> Album 4

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Masai men

Phototype: Photo. Format: 17,5 X 12,9. Description: 4 Maasai warriors with face painting, spear/bows?, in steppe landscape.

In: Picture archive >> Album 22

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Masai women at the market in Gonja

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,3 X 11,7 Description: 3 women under a tree, 2 sitting, calabash leaning against the tree. Reference: Plate and cardboard No. 72 in negative box ( 4 prints).

In: Picture archive >> Album 3 negatives of Wilhelm Guth

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Merufrauen fetching water

Phototype: Photo. Description: 2 women with calabashes on head, 1 girl with calabash on back, with sticks, leather clothes, at the river.

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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