Image / African man casting bones for divination, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911

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Title: African man casting bones for divination, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911
Creator: Borel, Arnold, 1871-1911
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896/1911
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Consultation des osselets" ("Casting bones for divination") Photograph of an African sorcerer casting bones for divination. Two men are crouching and sitting next to him. All three of them are wearing western style clothes. In the background, corrugated iron shacks.
Photographie d'un sorcier africain prédisant l'avenir à l'aide d'osselets. Deux hommes sont assis à ses côtés. Ils portent tous les trois des vêtements occidentaux. À l'arrière plan, des cabanes en tôle ondulée.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
10.2 x 12.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m63759 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv090-043-610
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63759
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv090-043-610.jpg
Subject: Clothing
Customs and traditions
Urban areas
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1896/1911
Place: Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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