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Title
Gebetsfahnen in den Kroboplantagen. (Weisse Tuchstreifen werden an Stangen vor dem Ortseingang befestigt, um damit die Geister für die Kranken zu bitten.)
Prayer flags in the Krobo plantations: white strips of cloth hung on sticks at the entrance to a village to ask the spirits to help the sick
Date Created and/or Issued
not after 1917
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
Note: Notiz auf der Rückseite der Photographie unleserlich.
Note translation: Notes on the reverse side of the picture are illegible. -
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, collodion
11.3 x 8.2 cm.
Identifier
impa-m25253 [Legacy record ID]
impa-abmpix-5911
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m25253
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-abmpix-5911.jpg
Subject
Cloth
Forest scene
Means of protection
Sacral place
Sickness
Indigenous African religions
Place
agricultural sites: Krobo (plantation)
not after 1917
Source
D-30.08.051 [Reference number]
Relation
Gold Coast. Ga region. Odumase. Other outstations. 8.a. Krobo farming villages - landscape, agriculture, houses, b. Krobo farming villages - palm oil
Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
impa-m15099; impa-m17150
mission 21 / Basel Mission

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