photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Eu,A1.174
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); women, dressed in regional costume, sitting with woven baskets in front of a building selling parts of looms; the women wear head coverings and carry parts of looms on their heads; a young girl standing behind them; the door of the building in the background; Scutari, Albania.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1910-1913
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.60 centimetres
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Width: 17.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Eu-A1-1 through 827 are all the same collection. Eu-A1-173, 174 and 175 depict the same scene.
Bibliography: This image relates to Durham's work in Balkans 1910-1913, a written account of which can be found in: Durham, M. E. 1914. "The struggle for Scutari (Turk, Slav and Albanian)". London: Edward Arnold.
PicDoc 277: The Durham list in the associated PicDoc, compiled by George Sweatman (ca 1997), bears the inscription "Women selling parts of looms".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 20thC
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,A1.174
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: F.N.897 (British Museum negative number)
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Miscellaneous number: M.M.034294/192 (Museum of Mankind print number)