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Title
Foreign dancers with masks in Fumbam
Creator
Wuhrmann, Anna
Date Created and/or Issued
1913
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
Bamessi dancers, at the funeral of Nzapndnunke, mother of the Bamum king Njoya.
The photograph was send by Anna Wuhrmann to Jean-René Brutsch, missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society). On the back of the photograph, she wrote "Aux funérailles de Nzapndnunke morte à Foumban le 2/VII/1913, mère du sultan Njoya".
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 8.7x11.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m76835 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_CMPFGB-JB043_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m76835
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_CMPFGB-JB043_2.jpg
Subject
Masks
Dancers
Clothing
Customs and traditions
Time Period
1913
Place
Bamum (Cameroon)
Cameroon
Source
SMEP/CM.P.FGB-JB043 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
Fonds photographique Bamoun / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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