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Title
Heilige Elefanten durch ein Dorf ziehend, Ceylon
Holy elephants moving through a village
Creator
Plâté & Co., Colombo, Sri Lanka
Date Created and/or Issued
1901/1920
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
All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images--both individuals and organisations--to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
info@bmarchives.org
mission21
mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+41 61 260 22 42), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Description
Annotation translation: "Ceylon."
Annotation: "Ceylon."
Note: Vergleiche auch QQ-30.021.0135 und Personen im Vordergrund. (BFN 09.1999).
Note translation: Cf. QQ-30.021.0135, and see the people in the foreground (BFN 09.1999).
Stamped: "Series B, No. 51 [Entzifferung unklar], Plâté & Co., Ceylon." - "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, platinotype
14.6 x 10.4 cm.
Identifier
impa-m44521 [Legacy record ID]
impa-abmpix-25994
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m44521
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-abmpix-25994.jpg
Subject
Adornment
Audience
Animal driver m
Elephant
Hat
Hinduism
Nobility
Palm leaf
Procession
Saddle cloth
Street scene
Village
Time Period
1901/1920
Place
Kandy
Sri Lanka
Source
QQ-30.116.0012 [Reference number]
Relation
Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
QQ-30.116: untitled
impa-m15099; impa-m17043
mission 21 / Basel Mission

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