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Title
Indigenous man fishing with a bow, Solomon Islands, ca.1900-1930
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
An indigenous man standing on the rocky shore of a river leans over the surface of the water with a bow and arrow ready to strike a fish.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "Missions Maristes d'Oceanie. - 8 - Peche a l'arc aux Iles Salomon." ("Marist Missions of Oceania. - 8 - Fishing with a bow in the Solomon Islands.") The Marists were a Catholic missionary order. The back also contains information from the publisher: "Editions Procure, 123, Chemin de Choulans, Lyon."
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14.5 x 9.75 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13183 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0096
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13183
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0096.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Customs and traditions
Portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
Oceania
Solomon Islands
Source
YDS/RG101/010/0000/0096 [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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