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View from the top of the "mountain of pearls"

Label affixed: "View from the upper edge of the "Mountain of Pearls" - at the southern copper ore deposit (No. 5) - of the Sindi valley with terraces. It is a swamp valley mainly covered with papyrus - the valley slopes reveal a three-part structure - at the end of the wide bulge on the right is the settlement of the Jumben Jugulu, just behind it the Lujegga stream. Seen from the viewpoint, the picture extends from SSE to SSW."

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Cataloguing data

Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 8 cm
Width: 11 cm
Height: 31 cm
Width: 25 cm
Material/Technique
in album, silver gelatine print
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
BGAEU 257

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    28 February 1911
    where
    on the "mountain of pearls"
    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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