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LL/61968
Unidentified photographer
1910
Native women wearing the kanga in Dar es Salaam reveal the extent of different styles along the coast and exemplify the overwelming popularity of the cloth for urban women.

Postcard
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
 
This photograph was included in the exhibition "“Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean World", Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
(Accessed: 20 October 2015)
indian-ocean.africa.si.edu/
 
LL/61968


 

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