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Title
Traditional wedding celebration, Ambohibary, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1957
Creator
Donald Schofield
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
Pagan wedding. 8. Prayers to the ancestors" "Part of series of prints of a Malagasy wedding ceremony. Caption in Chronicle, "Custom and conservatism - at a pagan wedding the 'bride price' is paid and prayers are offered up to the ancestors.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, 16 x 11.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m471 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-091-007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m471
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-091-007.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Religious practice
London Missionary Society
Schofield, Donald, 1928-
Portraits
Time Period
1957
Place
Africa
Ambohibary
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/06/091/007 [File]
Relation
Chronicle, June 1964
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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