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Annotation translation: "HB [Heidenbote] 1941/3. ... listening to the preaching. It was a custom in the lower Bakobngwan villages, if there was a corpse, to take it to the next village, where it would be eaten. The other villages [sic] did likewise. This cannibalism is not to be understood as a product of the peoples' bloodthirstiness, but their religiosity - a product of their belief in the power that a human being receives when he [the male form in the German] consumes the flesh of another." Annotation: "HB [Heidenbote] 1941/3. ... hören zu bei der Heidenpredigt. In den Dörfern im untersten Bakobngwan war es Sitte, dass wenn eine Leiche im Dorfe war, dieselbe in das nächste Dorf getragen & aufgefressen wurde & so machten es auch andere Dörfer. Dieser Kannibalismus kommt nicht aus Blutgier, sondern aus ihrer Religion, aus dem Glauben an die Kraft, die ein Mensch erhält, wenn er das Fleisch eines andern isst." Stamped: "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 7.9 x 10.7 cm.
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