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Title	Konde mother and son playing an instrument, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1891-1920
Description	"Konde-Oberland. Neuere Musik. Verschieden gestimmte Hölzer liegen lose auf 2 Bananenstümpfen u. werden von zwei sich gegenüber Sitzenden mit je zwei Hölzern geschlagen. Mutter u. Sohn. Eigenartige Haarfrisur" ("Konde highland. New music. Differently tuned wooden bars laying loosely on 2 banana stubs a[nd] are hit by two people sitting opposite from each other with two sticks each. Mother a[nd] son. Strange hair style"). A woman on a mat wearing four brass rings around her waist and having a pattern shaved on her mainly bald head is playing a kind of xylophone together with a boy sitting opposite from her. The dressed lower part of a man's body is depicted in the background on the left. A fence in the background behind the lower parts of banana trees.; One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.
Subject (aat)	double portraits
Subject (unesco)	Musicians Musical instruments Mothers Children
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (region)	Nyasa
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1891/1920
Photographer	Unknown
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1891/1920
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic prints, 13.1 x 8.8 cm.
Format (aacr2)	2 copies, colored slide no. 4808
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m11002
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Rights	Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Access conditions	Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Repository name	Moravian Archives
Repository address	Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
Repository email	unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Filename	IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04808
Archival file	impa_Volume114/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-1-04808.tiff

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