Group wearing thick-clothed garments from Ethiopia
- 141-a035260
- Item
- Digitized 2016 (originally created 1971-1972)
Parte deLorna R. Marsden fonds
Photograph of a group of three people, some of whom are wearing garments produced in Mekele, Ethiopia. These kind of thick-clothed garments were not worn by Ethiopians, but largely by westerners working and living there, or purchased as souvenirs. Garments like these were made by Ethiopians as part of the USAID economic initiative in Ethiopia in 1971-1975, which directed traditional Ethiopian skills towards revenue-producing activities.