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Title
Hova women, in Madagascar
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1910/1950
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Portrait of Hova women. They wear lamba, the traditional malagasy piece of clothes.
Hova is the word used to name the most important part of the Merina people.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.5x7 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m75243 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP010-01534_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m75243
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP010-01534_2.jpg
Subject
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Women
Clothing
Indigenous populations
Time Period
1910/1950
Place
Madagascar
Source
SMEP/MG.P.010-01534 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar scolaire / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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