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Title
Chief in traditional dress, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1930
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
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
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
"Cameroun - Un Des Principaux Chefs De Foumban, Avec Une Cotte De Mailles Datant De Temps Tres Anciens" ("One of the Principal Chiefs of Foumban with a Coat of Mail Going Back to Very Old Times"). Portrait of a man on the porch of a stone building dressed in an old coat of mail with his head and chest wrapped in white.
The back of the postcard is blank, with a printed address for the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris" The Société des Missions Evangéliques was a Protestant organization known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12275 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12275
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0005.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Africa
Cameroon
Foumban
Source
YDS/RG101/004/0000/0005 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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