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Crowd gathered to celebrate the installation of the new paramount chief of the Bassoutos Moshoeshoe II

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Title: Crowd gathered to celebrate the installation of the new paramount chief of the Bassoutos Moshoeshoe II
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/
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Description: Crowd gathered to celebrate the installation of the new paramount chief of Bassouto, Moshoeshoe II
A compact crowd around dancers
Comment : During more than a week, Bassouto people celebrated, by dancing and singing, the installation of their new paramount chief, Moshoeshoe II, and the creation of their first parliament.
Use of document : Photograph published in Le Journal des Missions, in April-May, 1960 and in L'actualité missionnaire, on 1960, 4
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 18.1x14.2 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_LSPP170-14446_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-87309
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_LSPP170-14446_2.jpg
Subject: Dancers
Indigenous populations
Place: Africa
Basutoland (Africa)
British Empire
1868-1966
Source: SMEP/LS.PP.170-14446 [File]
Relation: Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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