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Title
Witch Doctor, Malawi, ca.1895
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1895
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Full length photograph of a Witch Doctor, probably of the Ngoni people. The man has animal skins round his waist and arms.
The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68458 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-022.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68458
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS3-1-022.jpg
Subject
Medicine
Manners and customs
Portraits
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
Africa
Malawi
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS3/1/22 [File]
Relation
Elmslie of the Wild Ngoni LS3/1
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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