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Title
Men dancing in a dirt clearing, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Africa, March 8, 1949
Creator
Father M. Walsh
Date Created and/or Issued
1949-03-08
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
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Photograph of several men dancing in a dirt clearing in Tanganyika, Tanzania. The men dancing are wearing straw skirts and headdresses. There is a large crowd circling the men. A church is in the distance behind the crowd
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
6 x 9 cm
photograph
Identifier
impa-m64307 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Africa-08-106
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64307
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Africa-08-106.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Customs and traditions
Dance
Group portraits
Time Period
1949-03-08
Place
Africa
Tanzania
inhabited places: Tanganyika
Source
MFB/Africa/08/106 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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