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Photograph from A. N. Mirzaoff 

 CHIEF OF THK IMPERIAL GUARDS OP ABYSSINIA 



This picture of Pitaonan Yfrau was taken at the coronation of the Empress Waizeru Zauditu 

 in the Abyssinian capital of Addis Ababa. Cabinet government has been in effect since 1019, 

 following a year of personal administration by the Regent and Heir Presumptive, Ras Taffari. 



