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Title
A drinking round in Banso
Trinkgelage der Banso
Creator
Zürcher, Wilhelm (Mr)
Date Created and/or Issued
1932/1937
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
All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images--both individuals and organisations--to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
info@bmarchives.org
mission21
mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+41 61 260 22 42), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Description
Annotation translation: "Printed HB [Heidenbote] 1940/1."
Annotation: "Cl. HB [Heidenbote] 1940(1)."
Note translation: Note how the men are carrying their cutlasses on their left-hand side. They are drinking from cow horns or antelope horns (a chief would have a buffalo horn). (PV 03.2002).
Stamped: "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver
8.0 x 10.9 cm.
Identifier
impa-m30174 [Legacy record ID]
impa-abmpix-20709
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m30174
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-abmpix-20709.jpg
Subject
Adornment
Calabash
Drinking
Group
Headgear
Horn
Man
Men's wear
Palm wine
Social gathering
Type and material of construction
Time Period
1932/1937
Place
Banso
Cameroon
Source
E-30.85.150 [Reference number]
Relation
Cameroon. Land, people, religion. 5 Photographs by Zürcher. A) Land, nature, plants, animals, landscapes, places; b) the life of the people; c) religion
Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
impa-m15099; impa-m17144
mission 21 / Basel Mission

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