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Title
Priest and shrine, Port-Novo, Benin, ca. 1925-26
Creator
Walker, Frank Deaville
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"A Priest and shrine Port Novo." Priest standing inside a spirit shrine. The fetishes are on the left.
From a set of lantern slides entitled "Dahomey, the stronghold of the fetich" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. His trip to West Africa when the photographs in this set were taken took place ca. 1925-1926.
Type
image
Format
Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m11431 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-10-10
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11431
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-10-10.jpg
Subject
Methodist Missionary Society
Religious practice
Portraits
Place
Benin
Porto-Novo
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW/LS/10/10 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Methodist Missionary Society
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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