Tanzania (nation)
Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:
Zanzibar war drums, 1905
206 x 151 mm. A view showing a pair of decorated wooden war drums with leather stretched across top and bottom and a wooden club for beating the implement.
[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889
194 x 144 mm. A view looking along a beach towards a settlement of thatched huts, probably in Zanzibar. With a fisherman standing beside his dugout in the foreground.
[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889
193 x 144 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards a waterfront settlement, with dhows at anchor in the foreground.
Zanzibar waterfront, 1890 - 1905
216 x 152 mm. A view showing a crowded scene at the western end of the Zanzibar waterfront. Crowds of spectators are gathered in front of the godowns while yet more seem to be arriving by boat. They are evidently awaiting the arrival of a dignitary at Old British Agency Pier, but the occasion has not been identified.
Zanzibari girls at toilet, 1900 - 1910
151 x 209 mm. A view showing two Swahili girls, one arranging the other's hair in the distinctive Swahili style : 'Her hair... is 'done' in a number of ways, but the usual coiffure affected is the plaiting of her sparse locks into a series of ridges disposed at regular intervals over her head, which ridges are separated from one another by shallow valleys of bare scalp.' (Pearce 1920). A note on the reverse says 'Note shirt buttons in ears'.
Zollamt in Kilwa, D.-O.-A [Deutsch-Ostafrika i.e. Tanzania], 1910 - 1920
Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.