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Title	African women producing clothing, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1929
Description	"Herstellung der Frauengürtel. Dr. med. O. Fischer" ("Production of women's belts. Dr. O. Fischer"). Under banana trees five seated African women with their four children, bast and tools prepare clothing: the woman on the left, while nursing her child, beats a piece of bast with a small hammer in order to render it soft.; For the preparation of clothing see: Theodor Meyer: Die Konde. Ethnographische Aufzeichnungen (1891-1916) des Missionssuperintendenten Theodor Meyer von den Nyakyusa (Tanzania), p. 70. Hohenschäftlarn: Klaus Renner Verlag, 1989.
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Traditional technology Women Clothing Children
Geographic subject (country)	Tanzania
Geographic subject (region)	Nyasa
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1929
Photographer	Fischer, Dr. Walter Otto
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1929
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.3 cm.
Format (aacr2)	2 copies
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m8735
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-3-08693
Archival file	impa_Volume173/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08693.tiff

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