Image / African soothsayer, Shilouvane, South Africa, April 1905

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Title: African soothsayer, Shilouvane, South Africa, April 1905
Creator: Dentan, Jules
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905-04
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: "Le vieux Mankhélou [Mankhelou] devant ses osselets. Shilouvane avril 1905" ("Old Mankhélou [Mankhelou] behind his little bones. Shilouvane April 1905") Photograph of a man of African origin sitting behind little bones used for divination. The bones are lying on the skin of an animal.
Photographie d'un homme d'origine africaine assis derrière de petits osselets utilisés pour prédire l'avenir. Les osselets sont posés sur la peau d'un animal.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m65554 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv120-079-087
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65554
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv120-079-087.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Divination
Indigenous populations
Mankhelou
Portraits
Time Period: 1905-04
Place: Africa
Shilouvane
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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