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Title
Girl using a large pestle to grind food, Africa, October 1947
Creator
Father Bayers
Date Created and/or Issued
1947-10
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 girl using a large pestle to grind food. The girls is standing on a small platform on the left side of the pestle. The pestle is in the middle of a dirt clearing with a single tree in the background to the right. The girls is holding onto the large stick with both hands.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
8 x 13 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64080 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Africa-04-063
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64080
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Africa-04-063.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Girls
Pestles
Portraits
Time Period
1947-10
Place
Africa
Source
MFB/Africa/04/063 [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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