Mashona

Els, Heleen C.

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Mashona

Els, Heleen C.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/13502

Date: 2009

Abstract:

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Central and eastern Zimbabwe.

SIZE: Small.

COLOUR: Mostly black or red, other variations.

PURPOSE: Beef.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Former Makalanga breed of the Shona people of eastern Zimbabwe was decimated in late 19th century by cattle plague and early 20th century by East Coast fever epidemic, and mainly Angoni cows were imported and crossed with them resulting in a sanga-zebu cattle, which can be classified as a shorthorned sanga and is now know as the Mashona cattle.

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The colour slides have been scanned with a HP ScanJet 5590 scanner; 24-bit true colour, 600 dpi, saved in JPEG-format. Downscaling was done with Adobe Photoshop.

Photo 1: Original scanned document size: (w)85.09 x (h)54.75 cm. Final web-ready size: (w)7.62 x(h)4.9 cm, 50.98 kb, 150 ppi. Estimated download time: 19 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Photo 2: Original scanned document size: (w)87.07 x (h)57.15 cm. Final web-ready size: (w)7.62 x(h)5.00 cm, 44.54 kb, 150 ppi. Estimated download time: 17 sec. @ 28.8 kbps.

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