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Title
Title unknown
Creator
Dogimont, Rachel
Date Created and/or Issued
1931/1938
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
[A village chief (?) surrounded by his musicians]
Five Africans. The man in the center is probably the village chief. He's sitting. He's dressed in traditional costume and he has a 'headband' around the forehead. Around him, percussionists with their instruments. Behind the chief, an 'umbrella' decorated with triangular motives and above which there is a figurine.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white negative, on polyester, 6x9 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_TGN076-05517_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-89591
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_TGN076-05517_2.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Musicians
Indigenous populations
Fashion
Men
Time Period
1931/1938
Place
Africa
Togo
France
1914-1960
Source
SMEP/TG.N.076-05517 [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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