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Object Number
2004.29.12024
Display Title
Village
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "ombasa (Mombasa) / Swahili / Bantu-Arab / Native village Momebasa - British East Africa / A. Agassiz Collection / Mus. Comp. Zool. June, 1914"
Department
Photographic
Date
1908
Culture
- Bantu speaking peoples
- Swahili
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Kenya
/
Coast Province
/
Mombassa District
/
Mombasa
Africa / British East Africa
Africa / British East Africa
Dimensions
Overall: 15.875 × 22.86 cm (6 1/4 × 9 in.)
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
Donor
Donated by
Museum of Comparative Zoology
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2004.29.12023 | Village |
Mombasa
British East Africa | ||
| 2004.29.12026 | Hair dresser |
British East Africa
Mombasa | ||
| 2004.29.12025 | Luohiti women |
British East Africa
Mombasa | ||
| 2004.29.12020 | Group of men posed in front of a fence |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12019 | Woman and man in front of a hut or fence |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12016 | Group posed in front of a hut |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12015 | Group posed in front of a hut |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12018 | Two women grinding maize, one with a baby in a sling |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12017 | Woman carrying a ceramic vessel on her head |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12014 | Bantu- Giryama near Melinda B. E. Africa |
British East Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.12031 | Market |
Zanzibar
| ||
| 2004.29.12029 | Dancers in costume |
Zanzibar
|