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EU: An ornate carved doorway in Zanzibar with elephant tusks (c.1900), Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1900

EU: An ornate carved doorway in Zanzibar with elephant tusks (c.1900)

1900 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Elephant tusks lean against an ornately carved doorway in this Zanzibar photograph, taken around 1900, echoing the trade in ivory that once passed through the island's port.

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