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Title: Woman and girls mashing maize, Ngaoundéré, Adamaoua, Cameroon, 1953-1968
Creator: Heggheim, Åsmund Johan, 1920-2007
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953/1968
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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
USC does not control copyright for these images. For usage permission, contact Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University. Information is available at https://www.vid.no/en/historical-archive/ .
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Description: "Maisen støtes i tremorter. Ngaoundéré". ("The maize mashed in wood mortar. Ngaoundéré".) Woman and girls.
Type: image
Format: 35 mm slides
slides (photographs)
Identifier: IMP-MHS_A-1331_U_0075.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-91748
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MHS_A-1331_U_0075.jpg
Subject: Food preparation
Women
Girls
Group portraits
Time Period: 1953/1968
Place: Adamaoua
Africa
Cameroon
Ngaoundéré
Source: MHS_A-1331_U_0075 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University; Åsmund Johan Heggheim collection
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
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