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Title: Fetish tree, Sierra Leone, ca. 1905-1915
Creator: Walton, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905/1915
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: "A fetish tree. The stone at the root of this tree is supposed by the natives to travel by night to and from a river in the neighbourhood." James Walton served in Sierra Leone and Gambia from 1902 to 1920. Photograph deposited via W.T.Balmer.
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, 10.7 x 8.1 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2129 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2129
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-004.jpg
Subject: Plants
Primitive religions
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Walton, James, 1878-1965
Time Period: 1905/1915
Place: Africa
Sierra Leone
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a/003/004 [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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