Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

141-a035263
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

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.

Tomb of the Queen of Sheba excavation site with mountainscape

141-a035275
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of the excavation site of what was then thought to be the tomb of the Queen of Sheba in Aksum, Ethiopia. Lorna R. Marsden purchased several paintings on cardboard from roadside sellers near the excavation site, which were later donated to the Museum of Anthropology in 2016.

Mrs. Lyle Ran in shemma cloth

141-a035296
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

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.

Stone building and people with horse cart

141-a035300
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of a stone building with several people and a horse cart in the foreground likely taken somewhere near Lalibela, Ethiopia.

Market in Lalibela

141-a035306
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

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.

Food stalls in a market in northern Ethiopia

141-a035324
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

Photograph of food stalls and vendors selling produce in a market somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

People in a market in northern Ethiopia

141-a035325
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Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)

Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds

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.