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Title
Group standing in bush clearing, Boku, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1908-1910
Creator
Schlencker, Henry Percy
Date Created and/or Issued
1908/1910
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"Bush scene near Boku house.". Mary Schlencker with her two children and another Western woman and group of indigenous men and women. Photograph taken from a distance.
One of 27 prints mounted on 14 loose album pages by H.P. Schlencker. Schlencker served the L.M.S. in Papua New Guinea from 1895 to 1926, initially at Isuleilei until 1900 when he began work inland. He married Mary in 1905 and continued his work in the Boku and Kalaigolo areas until 1910. Schlencker employed the "settlement" principle of taking children, and sometime adults, away from their villages and families to live with the Christian community at the missionary's house as a method of converting the population, and ensuring they continued to lead a Christian life following their conversion.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints, ca. 10 x 14.2 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m927 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-19-10-007-009-1
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m927
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-19-10-007-009-1.jpg
Subject
London Missionary Society
Schlencker, Henry Percy, 1866-1954
Group portraits
Time Period
1908/1910
Place
Papua New Guinea
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/PNG/PHOTO/06/007/009/1 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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