Image / People holding percussion sticks, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Title: People holding percussion sticks, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
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: "Instrument de musique : lamelles de bois posees sur deux troncons de bananier". Several people are gathered around short lengths of logs placed across two log rests. Four sit and hold shorter lengths of stick used for percussion. Three more stand behind the logs.
The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "CAMEROUN FRANCAIS Missions des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin Procure de la Mission : 214, Rue Lafayette - Paris (Xc)". "Dillen et Cie, Heliograv. 23 rue Oudinot - Paris".
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58708 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0070
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58708
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0070.jpg
Subject: Musical instruments
Musicians
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Cameroon
Source: YDS/RG101/012/0000/0070 [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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