"Shoe guard" on Lalibela church path

This man is carrying Professor Ludwig's sandals on the climb up from a Lalibela church. Another person stands guard above with an AK-47, testimony to the still-unsettled conditions in late 1993.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1993-11

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Ethiopian

Lalibela (Ethiopia)

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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