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Title: Group portrait of female church members and male catechist, Nigeria, ca. 1910
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Group of women members and catechist at Iseyin." Group of women in traditional robes standing in front of fence. One woman wears western style dress. Men and childre to the side and people looking over fence.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper ,14.5 x 17.8 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2328 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2328
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-010.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Religious communities
Fashion
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: 1929
Place: Africa
Nigeria
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/022/010 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist 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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