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  • A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.
  • Sticky wires for catching flies at the meat and fish market, prepared in Zanzibar, held up by a local man. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Two women from Zanzibar, one milking the other's right breast into a cup.
  • An ornate carved doorway in Zanzibar, with an enormous pair of elephant's tusks leaning against it.
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    Sticky wires for catching flies at the meat and fish market, prepared in Zanzibar, held up by a local man. Photograph, ca. 1911.

    Aders, W. M. | Date: 1911 | Reference: 562386i
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    Amani memoirs : a provisional soil map of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar) with explanatory memoir / by G. Milne, East African Agricultural Research Station, Amani ; in collaboration with V. A. Beckley and G. H. Gethin Jones, Department of Agriculture, Nairobi ; W. S. Martin and G. Griffith, Department of Agriculture, Kampala ; and L. W. Raymond, Department of Agriculture, Zanzibar.

    | Date: 1936
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    Two women from Zanzibar, one milking the other's right breast into a cup.

    | Date: 1900 | Reference: 537797i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    Everyday spirits and medical interventions : ethnographic and historical notes on therapeutic conventions in Zanzibar Town / Tapio Nisula.

    Nisula, Tapio. | Date: 1999
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    A boy slave in Zanzibar punished by being forced to stand with a heavy piece of wood on his head which is chained to his ankle. Process print by C.H., 1896, after W.K. Firminger.

    Firminger, Walter K. (Walter Kelly), 1870-1940. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37959i
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