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Masai woman from Meru

Photographer: Emil Müller. Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,9 X 14,3. Description: Close-up of upper body, in front of retouched background, ear, neck and arm spiral jewellery, leather clothing. Remark: Published..: Gl. 1905, No. 1, Merker, M.: The Mas...

In: Picture archive >> Templates Sample book

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Masai-Patients

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,5 X 6,7. Description: Group of men and 4 women (1 with child) squat in front of box, on which different, bottles and containers stand, 1 African with European clothing. Reference: See album 22, no. 87 (6,2 X 10,0) "...

In: Picture archive >> Album 4

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Merufrau

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 11,8 X 15,8. Description: Back view, richly decorated hip apron (pearls?).

In: Picture archive >> Estate of Dr. Friedrich Mergner

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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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Moschi. Folk festival 1912

Phototype: Photo. Format: 13,9 X 8,9. Description: high altar(?) with palm leaves, in front of/next to it large crowd (sitting/standing; European/Islamic clothes, umbrellas, hats, caps, sticks), right beside altar group missionaries (far away, not...

In: Picture archive >> Album 19 Legacy Leonhard Blumer

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Native women at Kilimanjaro

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,8 X 11,4 Description: 4 women, probably Maasai, 2 dressed in leather, 2 probably clothed with scarves, 2 with neck spirals, 1 with ear spirals, 3 with arm spirals, the right one with connected foot, the left one with s...

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Newly trimmed heaths

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,7 X 10,3 Description: 5 boys, 4 dressed or decorated like Maasai or Arusha after circumcision (white face painting, long leather robe, ear spirals, feather headdress, arrow and bow), 1 boy with ca...

In: Picture archive >> Album 2 Leonhard Blumer

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Noble Swahili in Mombasa

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 15,1. Description: 4 men in front, 3 standing and 1 crouching in front (garments: turban, cap, kanzu, aba, jacket, waistcoat), 2 other African persons in the background at Steinhaus with plant fibre roof. Remark: U...

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One of Schangali's women

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,0 X 5,9 Description: young woman, upper part of the body in front of a white canvas, dressed with a checked cloth, neck and ear jewellery. Remark: Published..: Sheet 1904, No 15.

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Primeval Forest School in Nkoaranga

Phototype: Photo. Format: 17,0 X 12,3. Description: Group picture: approx. 26 Arushak children and adolescents in front of a rectangular house made of plant fibres (clothes made of leather, some cloth cloths). Reference: See proofs 9/599 "The...

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Rest when searching for timber

Phototype: Photo. Format: 16,2 X 11,4. Description: 10 african. Men / teenagers in jungle landscape with cut tree trunks, clothing: scarves, caps, 1 with shirt.

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Rika Lyosha(?) 1934/35 in Mamba

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,3 X 8,4 Description: Group picture: Miss. Fritze with 39 african. Adolescents (dressed in European clothes) in front of house with roof made of plant fibres (all with uniform belt).

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School in Mbaga

Phototype: Photo. Format: 17,0 X 12,2. Description: Group african. Children and adolescents, girls (less) left/boys right; clothing: some European clothes, hats, scarves, caps; rectangular house with roof made of plant fibres in the background; wo...

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Schoolgirl of Madschame

Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,8 X 10,3. Description: 9 girls, clothed, necklaces, retouched or white background. Remark: Published..: Lydia 1908, No 6, page 1908, No 21.

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Schw. Käte Reuter at the sick work

Photographer: Mergner?. Type: Photo. Format: 11,1 X 8,4 Description: in front of house (plastered walls, corrugated iron roof, veranda), sister with African group of people, men, women, children (European clothes, cloths/ kanga cloths), sitting cl...

In: Picture archive >> Album 22

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Sinare, chief of Shira with his...?

Phototype: Photo. Format: 15,7 X 10,7 Description: 10 men dressed in scarves and sticks, ear plugs, 1 with cap and white cloth. Comment: Up. 166, miss. Eq. 1904, Number 6 (published), retouched.

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Swazi warrior

Phototype: Postcard. Format: 14,0 X 9,0. Description: Clothing: white shirts/shirts, waistcoats, long scarves around hips, decorated, headdress, 1 with hat, on a meadow, another person in the background. Remark: See P39.

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

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Swazi warrior at war dance

Phototype: Postcard. Format: 14,0 X 9,0 Description: Woman clothed with cloth, in front of a round house with plant fibre roof, clay vessels. Remark: Series 2: S/ A I.

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

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Swazi women

Phototype: Postcard (colored). Format: 9,0 X 14,0. Description: with white full beard, European dressed with stick sitting in front of house made of clay and plant fibers. Remark: See P39.

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

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The elders of Obermadschame:

from the left: Naetaramo, Lasaro, Lucka, Marko, Benjamin. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,3 X 12,1 Description: 5 younger men, 2 of them with white cloths, 1 with kanzu and hat, 2 dressed European, in front of a wall.

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The first costume students at Meru

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,0 X 8,1. Description: in front of mission house (in Nkoaranga?) in front of fence covered with nasturtium, group photo: 11 girls, dressed with partly patterned cloths, 1 with leather clothing (Maasai/ Arusha). Remark: ...

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Two diligent worshippers, Chief Mbwana and his son

Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,9 X 10,1. Description: the 2 o. G.: the right one in torn. europ. clothes and umbrella, the left one in long. white. Garment with winding cane, both with old cylinder, bananas in background. Reference: Plate and cardboa...

In: Picture archive >> Album 5

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Two young Kamba men in jewellery

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,3 X 16,1 Description: Back view, arm and leg spirals, ear, neck and hip jewellery, clothed with scarves. Remark: retouched.

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Two young Wakamba men in jewellery

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,8 X 14,8. Description: the same as on the print template pattern book I/ 590, front view, arm and leg spirals, ear, neck and hip jewellery, 1 with arrow and bow, 1 with umbrella. Remark: Up. 284, retouched, miss. Gl. 19...

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Wakamba boy in Ikutha

Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,2 X 11,0. Description: Full body shot in front of retouched background, cloth around hips, cords around hips and ankles, sash, fez.

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Women's costume in North-East Ukamba

Phototype: Photo. Format: 13,3 X 11,2 Description: 3 women/girls with pearl strings around neck and hips and arms, decorative scars on the belly.

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