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Title	Spinning with a European spinning-wheel.
Type of title	translation
Original caption	Spinnerin mit europäischem Spinnrad.
Description	Note: "Ca. 1912." (Ch. M. Geary 1988:78). - "Spinnerin. In Kuti, der 'landwirtschaftlichen Versuchsstation' lebte in den Jahren 1913-15 ein deutscher Beamter, der 'das Herz auf dem rechten Fleck' hatte und die Eingeborenen wie gleichwertige Menschen behandelte. Er interressierte sich lebhaft für alles, was der Neger aus eigener Initiative fertig brachte und freute sich über alles was dem Schwarzen gelang. Er versuchte ohne aufdringlich zu sein den Neger auch für unsere Art zu arbeiten zu begeistern und brachte so viel Neues unter das Volk. Ein europäisches Spinnrad ist auch sein Geschenk. Zuerst wollten unsere Weiblein von dem surrenden und schnelllaufenden Ungetüm nichts wissen; es ging ihnen wohl zu schnell; aber nach und nach leuchtete ihnen das fremde Ding doch ein und mit fabelhafter Schnelligkeit erlernten die geschickten braunen Hände die Kunst unserer Grossmütter, und fröhlich surrend dreht sich nun täglich im hoch gelegenen Fumban das Rädchen, das sich vor Jahrzehnten wohl im gemütlichen Stübchen einer nordeutschen Matrone gedreht hatte!" (Wuhrmann, A., 1917. Beschreibung zu den Lichtbildern aus Bamum. E-30-0,6).; Note translation: "c. 1912." (C.M. Geary 1988:78). - "Woman spinning. A German official lived in Kuti, the Agricultural Research Station, in 1913-1915. He was a good man. He treated the natives as his equals. He had a lively interest in everything which the Africans achieved on their own initiative and was enthusiastic about everything they managed to do. Without forcing it he tried to interest them in our ways of doing things, and so was responsible for initiating a lot of change. He presented a European spinning wheel to the people. At first our little [sic] women didn't want anything to do with this monster which hummed and went so fast. But by and by they realised what it could do for them, and then the clever brown hands learned our grandmothers' skills amazingly fast. And so this little wheel, which decades ago was turned in a comfortable sitting room by some North German lady now hums merrily away every day in our plateau town of Fumban." (A. Wuhrmann, 1917, "Commentaries on Slides from Bamum", K.386).
Subject (bmpixs)	bench bracelet cotton fence headgear necklace spinner f spinning wheel textile pattern woman 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; 11.0 x 8.7 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m28946
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-30.33.054
Same image reference number	QE-30.006.0044
References	impa-m39035
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-4342
Archival file	impa_Volume59/impa-abmpix-4342.tiff

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