"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.
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