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Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa – Vintage Wall Art

Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa, [between 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph
Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa, [between 1890 and 1923]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa

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The caption card spells the group Kikayu, an older form of Kikuyu, the largest community in what was then British East Africa and is now Kenya. Kikuyu farmers worked the fertile highlands around Mount Kenya, land that colonial settlers pressed to claim after the protectorate was declared in 1895. The print belongs to the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, assembled by travel writers whose books and lectures introduced distant peoples to American readers. Made by a New York photo service, it is less a portrait of one named man than a window onto how such images circulated to Western audiences.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1923]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1930.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Africa, miscellaneous. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by Publishers Photo Service, 425 5th Ave., N.Y.C.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119113

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