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Title
Blowing a horn as a call to prayer, Uganda, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1940
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
An indigenous catechist in a white robe is outside blowing a large horn from an animal to announce the beginning of a service.
The back of the postcard is blank with information about the Catholic mission agency: "Missions des Peres Blancs" and a caption: "55. - le catechiste appelle les fideles a la priere (Uganda)" ("Catechiste calls the faithful to prayer") and also information about the publisher: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles."
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14065 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0114
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14065
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0114.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Religious practice
Portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Uganda
Source
YDS/RG101/018/0000/0114 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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