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Title: Miao agriculturalist and family, south west China, ca. 1949
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1949
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
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Description: "Agriculturalist and family." Ordained Miao minister and family. The minister depicted is working to introduce new methods into traditional farming and village practices.
One of a set of lantern slides entitled "Stone Gateway". Stone Gateway (Shimenkan) in Guizhou Province was the centre of Methodist missionary work to the Miao people of south west China. The work was begun by Samuel Pollard (1864-1915) ca.1904 when in response to increasing numbers of Miao enquirers he built the centre at Shimenkan.
Type: image
Format: Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12202 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-13-20-83-30
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12202
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-13-20-83-30.jpg
Subject: Family
Tribal peoples
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1949
Place: Asia
China
Source: SOAS/MMS/CH/LS/ 83/30 [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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