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Men and women worshiping on a feast day, Ononge, Papua New Guinea, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Men and women worshiping on a feast day, Ononge, Papua New Guinea, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
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: "La Fete Dieu a ONONGHE." ("Corpus Christi feast at Ononghe") A crowd of indigenous men and women kneel on the ground in front of a single-story building decorated with palm branches and flags. An altar table stands on the porch of the building.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur d'Issoudun. -- PAPOUASIE - NOUVELLE-GUINEE (Oceanie)." ("Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun. -- NEW GUINEA - NEW GUINEA (Oceania).") The Sacred Heart Fathers were a Catholic missions agency.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13141 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0054
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13141
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0054.jpg
Subject: Religious practice
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Oceania
Ononge
Papua New Guinea
Source: YDS/RG101/010/0000/0054 [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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