Konde mother and son playing an instrument, Nyasa, Tanzania, ca. 1891-1920

"Konde-Oberland. Neuere Musik. Verschieden gestimmte Hölzer liegen lose auf 2 Bananenstümpfen u. werden von zwei sich gegenüber Sitzenden mit je zwei Hölzern geschlagen. Mutter u. Sohn. Eigenartige Haarfrisur" ("Konde highland. New music. Differently tuned wooden bars laying loosely on 2 banana stubs a[nd] are hit by two people sitting opposite from each other with two sticks each. Mother a[nd] son. Strange hair style"). A woman on a mat wearing four brass rings around her waist and having a pattern shaved on her mainly bald head is playing a kind of xylophone together with a boy sitting opposite from her. The dressed lower part of a man's body is depicted in the background on the left. A fence in the background behind the lower parts of banana trees. One photo included from the box of duplicates. -- The picture was bought by the Moravian Archives from Rehwagen in 1926.