Chunya mining town

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Title: Chunya mining town
Creator: Wilson, Godfrey
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Chunya District, Chunya District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Dwellings, Streets--Tanzania--Chunya District
Description: Ridge's garage and the main street of the mining town of Chunya on the Lupa goldfields. Leonard Mwaisumo spent two months working as a clerk in Chunya before working for the Wilsons. Monica and Godfrey Wilson did a month of fieldwork there. Photograph taken in June 1937 by Godfrey Wilson as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Publisher: University of Cape Town Libraries
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Date: 1937
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Identifier: islandora:5657
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