cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59876
title: Entrance to the homestead of a sorceress(?), Bedele, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: To the left a topless woman is sitting on the ground lent against the fence surrounding a homestead. In the entrance of the fence the daughter of the woman is standing holding a wooden club (maybe a pestle) in her hand. The homestead is located on the land of the mission station in Bedele. The homestead probably predates the mission station.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59877
title: Ethiopian bard with masenko, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Er singt aus dem Stegreif." ("He sings extempore"). Portrait of a man holding a masenko [one-stringed instrument the size of a viola] and a bow in his hands. He is wearing light-colored clothes, a headband, a necklace, and an ammunition belt. Over the headband his hair is sticking out.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59878
title: Pots and statues in the grove of the qalu Abbaa Magaal, [s.d.]

description: In the background wood and a fence, the ground at the front is covered with stones. On the ground ca. 40 reversed clay pots with a surface covered with studs, ca. 20 wooden or clay statues, and some spears. The grove is located between Aira and Calliya.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59879
title: Mourning and wake for a chief, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Rechts unter dem Zelt das Grab, vorn unter dem Zelt sitzt der Vater mit dem Priester. Die Leute sind Freunde, die laut weinen und klagen müssen. Hinten unter den kl[einen] Grasdächern sind auch Gräber." ("To the right under the tent the grave, in front under the tent is sitting the father with the priest. The people are friends, who have to cry and weep loudly. Behind under the l[ittle] grass roofes are also graves.") Photograph of a seated group of people, some are standing. Two tents and three thatched canopies are visible.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59880
title: Grave of a chief, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Das Zelt mit dem Grab. Der Waffenträger des Verstorbenen [mit Patronengürtel, Fliegenwedel und kleiner Ledertasche], der die Totenwache hält, öffnet das Zelt, damit die Aufnahme gemacht werden konnte. Auf der Pritsche eine Puppe, hergestellt aus den Feiertagskleidern des Verstorbenen[:] Der Sohn Fite des Kanjasmatsch Raga am Tullu Aira." ("The tent with the grave. The armour-bearer of the chief [with ammunition belt, fly whisk, and small leather bag], who is holding the death wake, opens the tent, so that the photograph could have been taken[:] The son Fite of the Kanjasmatsch Raga at the Tullu Aira.")
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59897
title: Female slave with child, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Portrait of a woman with two bracelets around her right upper arm. In front of her a child. Both are wearing burlaps and holding 4 pumpkins as water bottles.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59899
title: Nilotic woman of the Shankalla, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Portrait of a young woman with a pearl necklace, bead chains as headdress, braided hair, earrings, and a lined tatoo on the temples, on the cheek, and on the breast.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59900
title: Oromo woman, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Portrait of an Oromo woman with braided hair.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59901
title: Afar people near the railway station, Ethiopia, 1927

description: To the left ca. 16 huts made predominantly of grass. In the middle Hermann Grabe next to three Afar men with spears, to the right three children and a woman "stehen am Zug und bieten ihre Ware an. Bei dem kleinen Kind kann man die Haarfrisur sehen, kahl geschorener Kopf mit einem Schopf am Wirbel" ("are standing at the train offering their goods. On the little child the hairstyle can be seen, shaved head with a tuft at the crown.")The scene is located at the railway station of Mata Haaraa, ca. 150 km from Adis Abeba.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59902
title: Afar people near the railway station, Ethiopia, 1927

description: "Rechts der Mann hat die typische Feder im Haar. Auch die Spitze der Scheide seines Dolches ist zu sehen." ("To the right the man has the typical feather in the hair. Also the top of the sheath of his dagger is visible.") In the background 8 houses made predominantly of grass. In the front two Afar men with their spears. To the left Hermann Grabe.; The scene is located near the railwaystation Mata Haaraa, ca. 150 km from Adis Abeba.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59903
title: Elderly Ethiopian woman, Ethiopia, 1927-1935

description: Portrait of an old woman with braided hair. -- cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 598.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59906
title: Construction of the emperor's palace, Ethiopia, Addis Abeba, 1935

description: Photograph of a stone building with timber scaffolding. On the construction site ca. 31 persons dressed in light colored clothes and ca. 29 persons in uniforms with peaked caps are visible. An iron girder (?) leads from a group of uniformed persons on the bottom right to two uniformed persons standing on a wooden ladder.; The picture was probably taken in 1935.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59910
title: Making a grain container, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an almost finished round container made of mud, straw, and cow dung. Behind it an old woman. Grass lies on the ground.; The photograph is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59911
title: Picture on behalf of the coronation of the emperor, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a picture on behalf of the coronation of the emperor Haile Selassie I. On the upper half of the picture a white three-pointed star from which three lines are emanating. Above in two semi-circles two lines of an Amharic inscription, below the inscription "Haile Sellase I." In the upper part of the lower half from left a lion with an emperor's crown and a scepter in his paw, an orb, a Star of David with a three-pointed star, and an Amharic inscription. In the lower part from left the portrait of the empress, the inscription "Empereur Ethiopie", the portrait of the emperor, and the inscription "Couronné; 2 Novembre 1930".; On the back of the picture a letter from Hermann Bahlburg to an unknown pastor. -- Original size 40 x 60 cm, colored. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59914
title: Ethiopian girls with children on their backs, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of four Ethiopian girls standing on a path in front of a bush, carrying smaller children on their backs.; The picture is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59915
title: Buffalo hunters, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Group of ca. 12 standing men, some with spears. One man is sitting in the grass in front of a dead buffalo. A European man, maybe Hermann Bahlburg, bends over the animal.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return journey. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59916
title: Waßmann and Bahlburg with a beer saleswoman, Ethiopia, 1928

description: "Tallaverkäuferin am Wege [...] unter einer Feige" ("Talla seller on the way side [...] under a fig tree"). In the middle an Ethiopian man with two oil lamps. To the left Hermann Bahlburg on horseback, to the right Dietrich Waßmann sen. next to a sitting woman with a big clay vessel between her legs and another vessel covered by a lid next to her.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 73. -- The scene is located on the caravan route near Holota. -- The picture was probably taken on the second mission caravan to Aira. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007. -- Dietrich Waßmann (1897-1954) was a missionary of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 on. In 1928 he married Martha, née Asmus. He worked at first at the mission station of Aira, where he established a protestant church and built an infirmary together with his sister Martha Waßmann. In 1935 he had to leave Ethiopia. He returned in 1938 and went back to Aira. In 1942 Waßmann  went back to Germany. He returned again to Ethiopia in 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59917
title: Carriers from Aira at a spear dance, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Group portrait of five European children, five Ethiopian adults, and four Ethiopian children, two of them with spears and two with leather shields. In the background a house with a corrugated iron roof and trees.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59918
title: Soldier of the camp of the Dejazmach Bulchaa, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: View of ca. 10 tents in a hilly landscape. In the foreground a topless Ethiopian is sitting with a piece of leather(?) in front of him.; Dejazmach is an Ethiopian military title.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59919
title: Clearing land, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a topless Ethiopian woman in a woody country. Next to her lie twigs and branches in the grass.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59920
title: People at a well, Addis Abeba(?), Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a well surrounded by stones. Several Ethiopian women and children with metal or clay vessels are visible. To the right maybe a missionary with his son. In the background eucalyptus trees and richly dressed Ethiopians, one with a dark cloak.; The picture is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59921
title: Memorial for emperor Menelik II, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Behind an iron fence a monument of Menelik II on horseback. In front a street or a square, on it a horse and a man carrying corrugated iron sheet on his head. At the fence several sitting and standing Ethiopians, partly with dark cloaks.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59922
title: Letter of Emperor Haile Selassie I, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Brief des Negus, in welchem er dem Ras Mulgageta von Gore den Befehl gibt, uns in Bedelle einen Missionsplatz anzuweisen." ("Letter of the Negus, in which he instructs Ras Mulgageta of Gore to assign us a mission place in Bedelle"). Photograph of an envelope and a letter written in Amharic. An official stamp is on top of the letter.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59923
title: Textile market, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 1938

description: In the background houses with corrugated iron roofs, in the foreground a market with several market stands on which four Ethiopian vendors are sitting offering textiles. To the left two customers.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 109.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59924
title: Local melting furnace for iron ore, West Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Mit Holzkohle wird in diesen Öfen Eisen geschmolzen" ("With charcoal iron is melted in these furnaces"). In the background a fence of bamboo or branches, in front a clay furnace.; The photograph is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59925
title: Guards, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: In the background a house with a corrugated iron roof, in front of it several seated Ethiopians. In front a corrugated iron shed on stilts, in it three Ethiopians with peaked caps, one with a gun. To the right a woman.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59926
title: Weekly market in the country, Ethiopia, 1929

description: Distant view of a crowd on an open space on a hill without human settlements.; The picture was taken on Hermann Bahlburg's second return journey. -- Hermann Bahlburg (1892-1962) was the leader of the Galla [Oromo] mission of the Hermannsburg mission in Ethiopia from 1927 until his internment in 1941. He was based mostly in Adis Abeba, where he promoted the founding of a German school and church. He was part of the first caravan to Aira and undertook several journeys to the newly established mission stations in Aira and Bedele. From 1941 to 1948 he was interned by the British occupying forces. Afterwards he returned to Germany, where he continued his work as missionary until he was banned by the leadership of the Hermannsburger Missionsanstalt. He  was posthumously rehabilitated in 2007.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59927
title: Dancing flute players, Bedele(?), Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Lange Bambusrohre dienen als Flöten, die nur einen Ton geben, aber verschieden gestimmt sind. Sie stossen abwechselnd in ihre Flöte." ("Long bamboo canes serve as flutes that give only one tone, yet are differently tuned. They blow alternately into their flutes.") In the background a thatched longhouse and another one with a corrugated iron roof. To the right a missionary's family is seated with a small child and two standing onlookers. In front three flute players. Another person is dancing.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59928
title: Shepherd mending his clothes, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: To the left at the way side two smaller animals, to the right a herdsman is sitting, a big basket next to him. He is sewing a light-colored piece of fabric.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59929
title: Women on a market, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: In the background a thatched house, in front 3 male and 6 female Ethiopians. A man to the left is carrying a chicken. Some of the women are wearing white headbands, a woman to the right "trägt einen aus Gras geflochtenen Sonnenschirm" ("is carrying a parasol braided of grass").
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59930
title: Woman of the palace of the sultan with a boy, Jima, Ethiopia, 1941(?)

description: Portrait of an elderly woman with an umbrella, in front of her a boy.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59931
title: Ethiopian women braiding hair, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Die Haare werden in unzählige kleine Flechten direkt an den Kopf geflochten, die dann viele Monate sitzen bleiben. Die Arbeit dauert 1/2 Tag." ("The hair is braided in countless little braids directly on the head, which stay there for many months. The work takes 1/2 day.") In the background a thatched longhouse and a fenced garden. In front two seated women. One woman is braiding the hair of the other.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m59932
title: Tribunal in front of a big tree, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: 20 Ethiopians, some with hats or dark cloaks, one with a spear, one with a parasol made of grass, are sitting around or on a big tree trunk.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60162
title: Two Ethiopian children with goatling, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "12 Trois amis" ("Three friends"). Photograph of a boy sitting next to a tree with a goatling on his lap, behind him a girl with twisted hair and necklaces. She is pulling the goatling by its ears.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60163
title: Country cemetery, West Ethiopia, 1929

description: Distant view of village roofs near a big tree. In the foreground two thatched longhouses, before them a cemetery enclosed by a stone wall with several graves surrounded by stones.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60164
title: Ethiopian man thatching a house, Addis Abeba(?), Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: The wooden structure of a round house with a partly thatched roof. On the roof an Ethiopian man, on the ground grass for thatching. Around the house 4 Ethiopian children, 2 men, and 2 women. In the background eucalyptus wood.; The picture was maybe taken between 1928-1930.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60165
title: Abyssinian girls, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "14 Fiilette Abyssine". In a chair sits a little girl in an embroidered dress. Her hair is partly shaved. The backmost and foremost part of the hair is braided. On the head she wears two necklaces.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60166
title: Oromo woman from Bacho, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Portrait of a young Ethiopian woman with a necklace and earrings. The hair is partly braided in cornrows.; The photograph is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60168
title: Women pounding grain, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of two women pounding grain in a mortar in front of two thatched round houses.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 641.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60169
title: Women pounding grain, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Two women are pounding grain in a mortar in front of two thatched round houses, with them a boy.; cf. picture no. ELM/AE/Fotos - 640.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60170
title: Oromo women pounding grain, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Frontal view of two women with braided hair, necklaces and bracelets around the upper arms. They are pounding something in a mortar. In front of them a goat.; The photograph is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60171
title: Ethiopian or Somali girl with a chicken, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Portrait of an African girl holding a chicken with both hands in front of her breast. The front part of her head is shaved.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60172
title: Oromo women at work, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "21 Femme GALLA au travail". In the background the stonewall of a house, before it a kneeling woman with a baby on her back. In front of her a clay bowl that is filled with liquid. To the left and right two gourds.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60173
title: Oromo man from the Botor Mountains, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Profile of a topless elderly Ethiopian man with a greyish beard and a beaded necklace.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60174
title: Playing Ethiopian children, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of three playing small children, some of them with shaved heads. Behind them a thatched round hut in bad condition amidst eucalyptus trees. An Ethiopian man sits in front of the hut.; The hut is next to the house of the Hermannsburg mission in Adis Abeba. -- One copy is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60175
title: Oromo girl with gourd and stork's ring, Ethiopia, 1939

description: Portrait of an oromo girl with a gourd in her left arm and holding in her left hand "als Amulett einen Storchenring von der Vogelwarte Rossitten, kurische Nehrung" "Sie hat [ihn] gefunden auf unserem Platz. Der Storch wurde 1939 in Pommern beringt" ("as an amulet a stork's ring from the ornithological institute Rossitten, Curonian Spit" "She has found it on our place. The stork was ringed in 1939 in Pomerania").
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60176
title: Oromo woman, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "[Frau, die] uns Heu brachte" ("[woman who] brought us hay"). Photograph of an Ethiopian woman with braided hair who stands next to a big haystack. In the background eucalyptus trees and a stone wall.; The scene is probably located in the court of the rented mission station of the Hermannsburg mission in Addis Abeba. -- The photograph was maybe taken between 1928 and 1930. -- One copy is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60178
title: Judge's shelter in front of the post office, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: In the background the post office. To the right a small corrugated iron roofed shelter, under it an Ethiopian man wearing a dark cloak. To the left a group of 6 men.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60179
title: Market, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: Market on a square. The sellers haver their goods spread in front of them on the ground. At the stands several grass-braided parasols. In the background corrugated iron roofed, two-storied houses.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60180
title: Grain trade, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Im Vorder- und Hintergrund des Bildes die beiden Hauptstrassen des Marktes [...]. Die Häuser im Hintergrund sind die Hinterfront der oberen Hauptmarktstrasse. Auf diesem Teil des Marktes wird Getreide verkauft. An allen Wochentagen findet Markt statt [...]. Auf den Eseln im Vordergrund wird das Getreide zum Markt gebracht." ("In the foreground and background of the picture the two main streets of the market [...]. The houses in the background are the rear facade of the upper market street. In this part of the market is sold grain. On all week days the market takes place [...]. On the donkeys in the foreground the grain is brought to the market.")
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60181
title: Carriers of wooden beams, Ethiopia, 1929

description: "Dann begegnete ich Hol[z]träger[n], die die auf der katholischen Mission in Sayo, auf deren Sägemühle zugeschnittenen Bauhölzer mehr als 100 km. weit schleppen nach dem Goldfeld Jubdo in der Nähe von Eira." ("Then I met carriers of wood who carry the wooden beams, that where cut to lenghth at the sawmill of the catholic mission in Sayo, more than 100 km far to the gold field Jubdo near Eira.") 5 Ethiopians with wooden beams, one with two shorter beams on his head, the others have put down their beams next to them.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60182
title: Oromo men plowing, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: In the background to the left a house. To the right a yoke of oxen, behind them an Ethiopian man holding the plow. Next to him another Ethiopian man and a small child.; The scene is located on the ground of the mission station in Aira. -- The picture is retouched.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60183
title: Wooden plow and oxen, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Kankurre lernt ein Paar junge Ochsen an" ("Kankurre is teaching a pair of young oxen"). In the background a harnessed pair of oxen next to an Ethiopian man. In front an Ethiopian, who is carrying a wooden plow with metal tine over his shoulder.; The scene is located on the land of the mission station in Aira.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60184
title: Qanquree teaching young oxen, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Der Zaun wird jeden zweiten Tag weitergestellt und so der Acker gedüngt." ("The fence is moved every second day and thus the field gets dunged.") To the left a cattle fence of sticks and twigs, in front to the right a local plow. An oxen is led from the meadow by three Ethiopians.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60185
title: Qanquree teaching young oxen, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Das Joch wird ihnen über den Hals gelegt. Durch den Baum sind 4 Löcher gebohrt, durch welche Stri[c]ke gesteckt werden. Zwei Stri[c]ke werden [...] einem Ochsen unter dem Hals zusammengebunden." ("The yoke is put them on the neck. Through the beam 4 holes are drilled, through which ropes are threaded. Two ropes are tied together under the throat of the oxen.") Two yoked oxen, two Ethiopian men and a child next to a cattle fence.; The scene is located on the land of the mission station in Aira.
DOI: 10.25549/impa-m60186
title: Qanquree teaching young oxen, Ethiopia, [s.d.]

description: "Dann geht es zunächst im Hurra den Acker entlang und kreuz und quer bis sie es gelernt haben, in der Furche zu gehen." ("Then it goes at first with hooray along the field and crisscross until they have learned to walk in the furrow.") Frontal view of a harnessed pair of oxen with plow that is held by an Ethiopian. Another Ethiopian is goading the animals.; The scene is located on the land of the mission station in Aira.