Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

11-01-a032657_1
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[ca. 191?]

Item is an image of the entrance of a house with two women standing by the door. According to annotations, the house was Lord Strathcona's and it was located in Rigolet (previously known as Rigoulette). Lord Strathcona was Rigolet's former Hudson's Bay store manager Donald Smith

Lorna R. Marsden

141-a035438
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden with an umbrella and book on a street in a city somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Lorna R. Marsden and a straw or mud hut

141-a035354
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden standing in front of a what appears to be a mud or straw hut and corrugated metal gate, somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Lorna R. Marsden and a young man

141-a035357
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden and a young man standing in a plaza somewhere in northern European.

Lorna R. Marsden and a young man in a market

141-a035479
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden with a young man in a market somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Lorna R. Marsden and friend

141-a035418
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden and a friend on a terrace somewhere in northern Ethiopia, likely near Lalibela.

Lorna R. Marsden holding a fly whisk

141-a035401
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden holding a fly whisk in front of a hotel, likely in Addis Ababa. This fly whisk, or another like it, was donated by Marsden to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016.

Lorna R. Marsden in a market

141-a035480
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden standing in front of a stall selling metal pots at a market somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Lorna R. Marsden on a camel

141-a035462
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden riding a camel somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Lorna R. Marsden with a group of children

141-a035312
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of Lorna R. Marsden with a group of children, some of whom are wearing shemma cloth. Shemma cloth is 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 by men and boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Ethiopia as wrap skirts and as shawls.

Lorna R. Marsden with driver and horse cart

141-a035403
Item
Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Part of Lorna R. Marsden fonds

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.