Two Kikuyu women pounding meali meal in the hollowed-out log of a tree, Nairobi.

Binks, H.

Date:: [approximately 1900]

Reference:: 538733i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Views of British East Africa / printed and published by H. Binks, photographer, Nairobi.
  - Two Kikuyu women pounding meali meal in the hollowed-out log of a tree, Nairobi.538733i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced July 2022: .Two African women pounding meali meal in the hollowed-out log of a tree, Nairobi, British East Africa. Collotype after H. Binks, ca.1900.

Publication/Creation

Nairobi : H. Binks, [approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 17.6 x 12.6 cm.

Series

Contributors

Lettering

Kikuyus

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 538733i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.