Image / Seated chief in traditional dress, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Seated chief in traditional dress, 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: "Jeune chef de Fokwe en tenue du pays." ("Young chief of Fokwe in custom of the country"). Portrait of a seated man wearing a dark hat and an outer garment full of patterns and designs.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the mission agency: "CAMEROUN FRANCAIS - Missions des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin - Procure de la Mission: 214, Rue Lafayette - Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Dillen et Cie Heliograv. 23, rue Oudinot - Paris" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12300 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0030
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12300
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0030.jpg
Subject: Clothing
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Cameroon
Source: YDS/RG101/004/0000/0030 [File]

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