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Title
Portrait of a man wearing a necklace of horns, Oceania, 1939
Creator
Fides
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Photograph of a portrait of a man that is wearing a necklace made of horns. The man is facing the right side of the photo. The photo is a profile so only the right side of his face is showing. The man is shown from the waist up. He is wearing a necklace that has four horns sticking up in the back. The horns are resting on the man's back.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
13 x 18 cm
photograph
Identifier
impa-m64544 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Oceania-01-005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64544
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Oceania-01-005.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Men
Horn
Necklaces
Portraits
Time Period
1939
Place
Oceania
Source
MFB/Oceania/01/005 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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