Image / African sorcerer casting bones for divination, Antioka, Mozambique, ca. 1896-1911

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Title: African sorcerer casting bones for divination, Antioka, Mozambique, 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: " Chez le magicien & ses tinholo (Melle Math. Perrenoud & M. Guye (à dr. femme à la chevelure ochrée)" ("At the magician & his tinholo's home (Miss Math. Perrenoud & Mr Guye (on the right woman with ochry hair") Photograph of Mathilde Perrenoud and Henri Guye paying an African sorcerer a visit. Miss Perrenoud wears a light colored dress and a hat. She rides a donkey and holds a parasol over her head. Mr Guye crouches behind a mat on wich little bones are lying. On the left, a hut.
Photographie de Mathilde Perrenoud et d'Henri Guye rendant visite à un sorcier africain. Mlle Perrenoud porte une robe de couleur claire et un chapeau. Elle monte un âne et tient un parasol. M. Guy est accroupi derrière une natte sur laquelle se trouvent des osselets. Sur la gauche, une hutte.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
10.2 x 12.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m63965 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv100-048-682
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63965
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv100-048-682.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Customs and traditions
Women
Guye, Henri
Perrenoud, Mathilde
Group portraits
Time Period: 1896/1911
Place: Africa
Antioka
Mozambique
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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