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Title
Two young men wearing feather headdresses, Kenya, ca.1927
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1927
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
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
"Missione del Kenya - Serie VII - Usi Indigeni." "65 - Gli ornamenti dei giovani." Two young men sit for the camera. They wear elaborate necklaces and armlets, and thin corded headdresses adorned with a single feather at the front.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed at the top of the correspondence section is "Istituto - Collegio Internazionale Della Consolata per le Missioni Estere - Torino (17) Corso Ferruccio, 16 "La Consolata" periodico mensile - Abbonamento L. 5 annue".
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m59308 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-015-0000-0030
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m59308
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-015-0000-0030.jpg
Subject
Fashion
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1927
Place
Africa
Kenya
Source
YDS/RG101/015/0000/0030 [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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