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Ovamboland (general region)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Famine stricken natives wait for food [historic title], 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057A/12
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194 x 101 mm. Showing a large group of starving Ovambos with bowls in front of them. Probably one of the photographs used by Pritchard in his lecture. 'The pictures he showed of famine-stricken natives were truly appalling.' (Journal of the African Society, 1916-17 p. 5)

Dates: 1915
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