TWO PHOTOGRAPHS

Ca. 20th century AD. > A group of two photographs. The upper one depicts a group of people gathered outside traditional domed dwellings, likely in pastoral East Africa. The lower photograph, by German photographer Walther Dobbertin (1879�1962), shows a warrior standing beside a thatched structure, holding a large shield and spear. Dobbertin, active in German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda), is well known for documenting both colonial and local subjects in the early 1900s. > > Size: 230-310mm x 175-245mm; Weight: 20g > Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014; Ex. Zemanek Munster, Tribal Art, Auktion 61, 19 June 2010, Lot 45 and 52. > >

Estimate:£100

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