- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Settlement with an open sided frame used as animal shelter. On the left side a group of women is sitting outside a thachted house, preparing food (?).
- Cultural groups
- Chokwe
- Person
- Photographer Heinrich Hermann Meinhard
- Expedition or compiler Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Hermann Baumann
- PRM source Tom Meinhard
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 04/1930 - 11/1930
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 03/1997
- Photographic process
- Print gelatin silver
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 120 x 90 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1998.340.22.183
Search terms: Settlement, Dwelling, Food and Drink
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