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Title
Title unknown
Creator
Casalis, Alfred
Date Created and/or Issued
1889/1906
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/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
[Group of men in a Bassouto village]
African men standing in a central place of a Mossouto village which is called the "lekhotla". It is reserved to the men. It is used like a place to return the justice. Huts and "lelapa" are in a circle around this space.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 7.7x10.5cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_LSPP154-13061_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-87055
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_LSPP154-13061_2.jpg
Subject
Traditional architecture
Houses
Indigenous populations
Rural areas, Village
Men
Basotho
Time Period
1889/1906
Place
Africa
Basutoland (Africa)
British Empire
1868-1966
Source
SMEP/LS.PP.154-13061 [File]
Relation
Album Alfred Casalis au Lessouto (1889/1906) / Casalis, Alfred
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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