- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Several roof thatched houses and a granary. Path between the first house and second house to the left. A herd of goats is strolling around.
- 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: 1998.340.22.210
- Research and responses
For further information concerning the subject of the photograph see Hermann Baumann's Lunda. Bei Jägern und Bauern in Inner-Angola. Ergebnisse der Angola-Expedition des Museums für Völkerkunde (Würfel-Verlag, Berlin 1935), pp. 18-30.
Search terms: Settlement, Dwelling, Carving, Animal Husbandry
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