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An up-close photograph of two common types of bananas grown in Kigoma.

A photograph of plants including bananas that are 2-3 years old and 6 feet tall, ananas, manihot and borassus palms in the back.

A photograph of two types of bananas, the short small type, and the long large type. There is an indigenous man named Kalemuengo, standing next to the banana trees.

A photograph of bunches of bananas and plantains. They are short and thick with some a full foot long.

A photograph of a banana market, full of indigenous people walking and sitting under the trees at Ujiji.

Banana grove, tall rather dark stems. This type of banana is quite abundant. I have seen many very black stemmed bananas. The large plantation type is not grown here to any very great extent, mostly the small or very short type. Bananas are…

A banana grove on slope and at top of the hill. Grass in the fore. A large Rumex at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Typical - bananas everywhere with hills behind, & Verstappen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A photograph of a rice field filled with banana trees. There is also a forest with tall trees in the background.

Abyssinian banana at water edge - high forest in back. The forest along stream becomes more and more prominent and finally - a high forest type, great tall white trunk trees and stream and mt. with Musa abyssinica everywhere. Agriculture along here…

Banana 1/2 nat[ural size]. This is a short red form. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 7, 1920]

Bamboo, Botanical gardens - cycad in dist[ance]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 8, 1920]

A photograph of bamboo, which is about 10 feet high. It is abundant, especially on termite hills.

Vegetation, with Balli cemetery off U.S. Highway 281 in the background.