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Title
Oxen drawing plow, Burkina Faso, ca.1960-1970
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1960/1970
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
Two oxen draw a plow as men work in a partly-furrowed field.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed on it is "Catechiste de la region de KOUDOUGOU (Haute-Volta [Burkina Faso]) Afr. Occ. Modele et entraineur de progres social et agricole. Le Diocese de KOUDOUGOU se trouve en Afrique occidentale, au centre de la boucle du Niger, dans la jeune Republique de Haute-Volta. C'est un pays de savane, une region tres peuplee, mais desheritee, en "premeire ligne" des pays qui souffrent de la faim. Aucune industrie, aucun commerce
tous les habitants sont cultivateurs, et ne reussissent pas a vivre normalement des fruits de leur travail. Ils ignorent encore l'usage de la charrue et les techniques agricoles les plus elementaires. Le Catechiste, pendant ses annees de formation a l'Ecole Normale est initie a l'apprentissage rural, et devient ensuite l'exemple vivant d'un travail assidu et intelligent. Il faudrait pouvoir a chaque Catechiste une charrue legere (15.000 F 150 NF), une paire de boeufs 50.00 F ou 500 NF)
et, pour ses tournees d'apostolat et ses visites aux malades, un velo (25.000 ou 250 NF) CCP Eveche de Koudougou (Hte-Volta) OUAGADOUGOU 45 ou Procure des Peres Blancs 24 Avenue de Launay, NANTES."
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m58619 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0002
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58619
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0002.jpg
Subject
Animals
Agriculture
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1960/1970
Place
Africa
Haute-Volta
Koudougou
Source
YDS/RG101/012/0000/0002 [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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