Abyssinia. Thieves in Stocks at Senafe.

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Abyssinia. Thieves in Stocks at Senafe.

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Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville

Photographer · 1835–1906

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Ronald Leslie Melville, the eleventh Earl of Leven and Melville, was an aristocratic amateur photographer and member of the Amateur Photographic Association, to which he was elected in 1866. Well-known in London as head of an Anglo-American banking house and director of the Bank of England, he pursued photography simply as a pleasurable pastime. He produced theatrical *tableaux vivant* and genre p

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Date
about 1867–1868
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
Scottish
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
a63274e5-eb8d-4800-99ec-7959e5a19b86

Eight native men are sitting on the ground and are placed barefoot in stocks. Behind them are two tents that appear to be part of a larger encampment.

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