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Title	A completed house in Bamum.
Type of title	translation
Original caption	Fertiges Haus in Bamum.
Description	Note: "Haus (bau) fertig. Wie schön steht das fertige Haus des vornehmen Bamummannes da. Wie regelmässig ist an der untern Dachkante das lange Gras beschnitten, und wie kunstvoll ist das Fries, das zwischen den Hauswänden und dem Dach schmückend rings ums ganze Haus läuft. Dies Fries wird aus Grasbüscheln hergestellt und zwar sehr einfach. Die schwarzen Figuren meistens Tierbilder, sind angesengte Grasbüschel, die, schon während des Brennens schnell in ein Gefäss mit Wasser getaucht, die schwarze Farbe beibehalten. Rings um unser Haus herum läuft eine kleine wohnliche Veranda, nur aus Palmrippen hergestellt. Das ist der Ort, wo sich die Bewohner des Hauses während der Regenzeit oder über die grösste Mittagshitze gerne aufhalten. Da ist es trocken und kühl und vor allem heller als drinnen in der rauchgeschwärzten Hütte, die auch vom Eingeborenen nur dann aufgesucht wird, wenn er sein frugales Mahl zubereitet oder verzehrt, und wenn die Nacht um das weite Land ihren schwarzen Mantel schlägt." (Wuhrmann, A., 1917. Beschreibung zu den Lichtbildern aus Bamum. E-30-0,6).; Note translation: "The completed house of a noble Bamum gentleman looks beautiful. See how straight the grass of the thatch has been cut on the bottom edge of the roof. Look how artistic the frieze is between the walls and the roof, and which runs all the way round the house. This frieze is made very simply from bundles of grass. The dark figures, mostly pictures of animals, are made of singed bundles of grass which were quickly dipped in a bucket of water once they began to burn, and which then retain their blackness. Round this house runs a small, comfortable-looking verandah, built simply of the ribs from the palm tree. The people who live in the house like sitting there in the rainy season, or during the great heat in the middle of the day. It is dry there and cool and above all there is more light than inside the house, with its smoke-blackened walls. Indigenous people only use the inside of the house to prepare or eat their frugal meals, and when the night spreads its black robe over the land." (A. Wuhrmann, "Commentaries on Slides from Bamum", 1917, E-30-0,6, K 382). - A house for men or rather a husband (PV 02.2002).
Subject (bmpixs)	architectural view fence thatched roof type and material of construction open space
Geographic subject	Bamum {traditional state}; Bamum {people}
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Foumban {place}
Coverage date	1911/1915
Photographer (bmpixn)	Wuhrmann, Anna (Ms)
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1911/1915
Type	images
Format	b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver; 8.2 x 11.2 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m28909
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of official series	Cameroon. Grasslands. Bamum. 1. Panorama of Fumban, town walls, town gates. 2. Compounds in Fumban. 3. Economy. 4. Markets. 5. Craftsmen and artists. 6. Hausas in Bamum. 7. Landscape.
Part of repository	mission 21 / Basel Mission
Reference number	E-30.33.017
Same image reference number	QE-30.006.0026
References	impa-m39017
Rights	All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images -- both individuals and organisations -- to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Filename	impa-abmpix-3864
Archival file	impa_Volume59/impa-abmpix-3864.tiff

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