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The land of Zinj, being an account of British East Africa, its ancient history and present inhabitants

Stigand, C. H. (Chauncy Hugh), 1877-1919, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1913 · London, Constable & Company ltd. · 8 pictures

The Land of Zinj is a 1913 London account of British East Africa by C. H. Stigand, a colonial official and ethnographer, covering its ancient history and present peoples. Its four photographs show a man walking through tall grass, a coastal village with beached boats and anchors, a flat plain with a dark mound of stones, and thatched huts beside a tower, offering a designer plain documentary views of landscape and settlement in early twentieth-century East Africa.

Ethnology

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