Image / Two masked men flanking a chief and horn bearer, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Two masked men flanking a chief and horn bearer, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
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 Francais - Missions des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin". "3. Un grand Chef avec deux "djou-djou" policiers masques". A chief stands leaning on a staff, flanked by two men in print shirts and wooden masks. Another man stands beside the trio, holding a horn made of an elephant tusk.
The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is Procure de la Mission : 214, Rue Lafayette - Paris (Xc)". "Edit. M. Brochard, 81, quai Fosse - Nantes".
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58711 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0073
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58711
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0073.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Musical instruments
Heads of state
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Cameroon
Source: YDS/RG101/012/0000/0073 [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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