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Title
Old Betsileo man, in Madagascar
Creator
Lisan, Robert, (1900-?)
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-10-30
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Portrait of an old Betsileo man. He wears a lamba.
The lamba is a traditional white piece of clothes worn by malagasy people. Betsileo is the name of the population living in the south of the center part of Madagascar.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 17.2x11.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m74134 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP004-00425_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m74134
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP004-00425_2.jpg
Subject
Men
Clothing
Indigenous populations
Time Period
1945-10-30
Place
Madagascar
Source
SMEP/MG.P.004-00425 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar Types - Coutumes / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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