Location: Ethiopia - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Poster divided up into 9 geometric shapes showing images from the Muslim culture of Hārer. The signs in the pictures are written in Arabic. Some of the images include old texts, buildings, tombs, cemeteries, crafts, and religious paraphernalia. Background poster is white, sections are divided up by green lines.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Shows 6 images of Koromi, a village populated by the Argobba people, an Ethiopian Muslim ethnic group. Images include buildings made of stones, a green stone tomb, a goatherder, smiling children, and a person constructing what appears to be a screen or net. Images are outlined in red.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: 11 shapes form an arch showing images of buildings, shrines, and tombs associated with Muslim saints. "Madinat al Awliya" translates to "City of Saints" in English, and is a nickname for Hārer. The buildings are primarily green and white. One (in the lower right corner) is the tomb of Emir Nur.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A young woman in 3/4 profile is holding what appears to be a large container on her head with her left arm. She is wearing a black and white thin headband, a beaded choker, and several other necklaces of beads, and possibly leather thongs. Several thin metal bands are around her left wrist, and a larger tan bracelet is around her left forearm.
Date:: [between 1970 and 1990?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hapte Selassie
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A photo of the large church in Kulubi, Ethiopia on St. Gabriel's Day, with crowds of Orthodox pilgrims outside, many wearing white and carrying umbrellas.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: "Ethiopia" is printed in white in calligraphic font over the image. Rest of text printed in black on a white block below the image.
Date:: [between 1965 and 1990?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Title is printed in black in lower case on a white background.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Tessore, Alberto, 1937-
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A headshot of a smiling Beni-Amer boy. He has ritual scars on his cheeks and his hair ringlets are stiffened with mud. The photo was taken in Tesseney, Eritrea.
Date:: 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Blair, James P.
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: 20 squares of Black women's hairstyles placed in a grid formation, 4 x 5, each square has two angles of the hairstyle shown. Two upper body shots of men are on the top corners. 8 smaller pictures of men are along the bottom of the poster.
Date:: [between 1995 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Poster is focused on three Ethiopian women standing amongst others and trees. All women have their heads covered. The woman on the left is carrying a basket containing a wrapped object on her head, and her head covering is brown. The woman in the middle is wearing an orange head covering and bright blue dress. She is carrying a gourd in her right hand. The woman on the right is carrying a gourd in her left hand and a measuring cup in her right. The woman on the right is in the process of either adding or removing something from the middle woman's gourd with the cup.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kyriazis-Zervos
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

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