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Men stand under the opening of a large thatched pavilion, Papua New Guinea, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Men stand under the opening of a large thatched pavilion, 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
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Description: Six Papuan men and eight boys pose on two levels under a large thatched roof that stands approximately thirty feet high.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains a printed title: "MISSION DE PAPOUASIE - Maisons en forme de gueule de crocodile ouverte (Cote Sud)." ("MISSION OF NEW GUINEA - Houses in the shape of an open mouth of a crocodile (Southern Coast).") The back also contains printed information about the publisher: "Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur - ISSOUDUN. - Reproduction interdite." ("Missionaries of the Sacred Heart - ISSOUDUN - Reproduction prohibited.") The missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 10.5 x 14.75 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13151 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0064
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13151
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0064.jpg
Subject: Housing
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Source: YDS/RG101/010/0000/0064 [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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