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Photograph of the Seven Olives Hotel in Lalibela, Ethiopia which is a landmark in the town and where Lorna R. Marsden stayed during her trip to northern Ethiopia.

Photograph of corrugated steel rooftops, a clock tower, and buildings in a city in northern Ethiopia.

Photograph of a priest taken in the rock churches, which are painted churches in Tigre province outside of Mekele, Ethiopia. The priest is seen holding a gold cross being unwrapped from some luxurious cloth. The photograph provides context for a painted portrait of a high standing person acquired by Marsden in Ethiopia and later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in that the photograph shows a gold cross similar to one depicted in the painting.

Photograph of a street plaza in a city somewhere in northern Ethiopia, with parked cars, pedestrians, and a cyclist. Photograph also shows some building façades.

Photograph of a group of people and animals walking on a road in a hilly rural region somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Photograph of people buying and selling food and goods in a market in northern Ethiopia. Many of the people are wearing shemma cloth, a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016. This image shows its typical and everyday use in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as a body and head wrap, wrap skirt and shawl.

Photograph of two guards in front of the gates to the National Palace (also known as the Jubilee Palace) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Photograph of Mrs. Lyle Ran, manager of the Abreha Castle Hotel in Mekele, Ethiopia. Mrs. Ran is wearing a shemma cloth in the style of a sari. Shemma cloth is a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016, but this image shows its typical and everyday use by women in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a wrap for head and bodies.

Photograph of a mountainous landscape somewhere in northern Ethiopia with figures in the foreground.

Photograph of a band in what appears to be a military procession, likely in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Photograph of a market in northern Ethiopia, showing people using black umbrellas. The photograph provides context for an ornate, velvet priest's umbrella acquired by Marsden in Ethiopia and later donated to the Museum of Anthropology, in that it shows the typical use of umbrellas in northern Ethiopia as a shield from the sun.

Photograph of the daily market in Lalibela, Ethiopia near a group of rock-hewn churches where small items are exchanged and sold, mostly food items. The photograph provides context for an ornate, velvet priest's umbrella acquired by Marsden in Ethiopia and later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in that the image shows the everyday use of black umbrellas as a shield from the sun.

Photograph of a market somewhere in northern Ethiopia showing what appears to be stacks of shemma cloth being sold at a stall. Shemma cloth is a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016. This image shows its typical and everyday use in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as a body and head wrap, wrap skirt and shawl.

Photograph of a market somewhere in northern Ethiopia. Several people seem to be wearing shemma cloth, a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016. This image shows its typical and everyday use in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as a body and head wrap, wrap skirt and shawl.

Photograph of a group of men and children in front of a stone wall. The man on the right is wearing shemma cloth, a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016, but this image shows its typical and everyday use by men and boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as wrap skirts and as shawls.

Photograph of a man walking across a palm tree-lined street in a city in northern Ethiopia, with cars passing by.

Photograph of two men on a hill somewhere in northern Ethiopia. The man on the right is wearing shemma cloth, a hand woven material ubiquitous in Ethiopia, but particularly in northern Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased an example of a shemma cloth designed for special occasions during her travels which she later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016, but this image shows its typical and everyday use by men and boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as wrap skirts and as shawls.

Photograph of a man in front of Biete Mariam church, one of several rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia.

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden holding what appears to be a lion cub somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden with a driver in a horse cart, somewhere near Falasha Jewish village in northern Ethiopia. Both Marsden and the driver are holding fly whisks. Marsden purchased this fly whisk in Gondar, where she also bought crosses made out of metal and wood and a Ge'ez manuscript. This fly whisk, or another like it, was donated by Marsden to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016.