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The voice of Africa; being an account of the travels of the German Inner African Exploration Expedition in the years 1910-1912

Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1913 · London : Hutchinson & Co. · 8 pictures

The Voice of Africa is a 1913 London travel account by German ethnographer Leo Frobenius, recording the 1910-1912 German Inner African Exploration Expedition for a general reading public. Its plates are black-and-white photographs and line drawings of people, domestic interiors and pottery, showing dress, posture and craft shapes a designer could use for period reference or patterned vessel motifs.

Deutsche Inner-Afrikanische Forschungs-Expedition 1910-1912)

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