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The women wore animal tails

 Item — Group: 23, Album: 2, Page: 2
Identifier: 23-2-2-4

Scope and Contents

From the Record Group:

Note that all captions are supplied by encoder, except those which have been located in Berger's monograph, In Afrikas Wildkammern als Forscher und Jäger . These have been provided in the original German as they appear in the book.

Dates

  • 1908-1909

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Class:

German

Conditions Governing Access

To inquire about access to this collection, please contact the Herskovits Library at africana@northwestern.edu.

Extent

From the Record Group: 1 album (1 album, 12 p., 25 x 32 cm.) : Oblong quarto (25 x 32 cm.), dark orange cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, containing 48 uncaptioned, silver prints, each approximately 9 x 12 cm.

Physical Description

Photograph 4

General

Title supplied by cataloger.

After the initial cataloging of this album was completed, the photograph originally on the page was discovered to be missing. This scan is from the same photograph as it appears in In Afrikas Wildkammern als Forscher und Jäger, p. 384, captioned "...die Frauen trugen Tierschwänze".

Library Details

Part of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Repository

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