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Group performing indigenous religious ceremony, Madagascar, ca. 1890

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Title: Group performing indigenous religious ceremony, Madagascar, ca. 1890
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1890
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
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "A Heathen Ceremony". Group gathered around rocks. One man plays a traditional musical instrument. From album page entitled "Malagasy Idolatry and Superstition"
One of around 360 prints from various sources mounted and indexed in folders. Probably used for reference and publication by London Missionary Society headquarters.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 7.9 x 11 cm.
Identifier: impa-m394 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-023-017-3
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m394
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-023-017-3.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Primitive religions
London Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1890
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/06/023/017/3 [File]
Relation: Council for World Mission/London 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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