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Mouth of the Lunangwa River

Label affixed: "Mouth of the Lunangwa River on the western Tanganyika coast, Congo State. The estuary with its steeply rising valley edges of up to 175 metres makes a fjord-like impression. The length of the estuary from the edge of the lake to the Alluvion is about 2 kilometres. The centre of the valley was plumbed at about 1 km; no bottom was reached at a depth of 170 m. It can therefore be assumed that the valley was formed by a transverse fracture. The edges of the valley consist of mottled quartz porphyry. The alluvion protrudes about 3 metres above the water and drops steeply to the east under water, so that anchoring the steamer was very difficult."

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Cataloguing data

Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm
Width: 25 cm
Height: 8 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
in album, silver gelatine print
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
BGAEU 300

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    25 April 1911
    where
    Lake Tanganyika
    Lunangwa
    who
    Friedrich Tornau (1877-01-11 - 1914-11-14)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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