Image / African boy wearing the circumcision costume, Shilouvane, South Africa, 1906

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Title: African boy wearing the circumcision costume, Shilouvane, South Africa, 1906
Creator: Dentan, Jules
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Élève de l'École de circoncision avec son costume d'herbe tressé par lui-même. Lémana [Lemana] 1906" ("Boy from circumcision school with the costume he made of grass. Lémana [Lemana] 1906") Photograph of an African boy wearing the circumcision costume.
Photographie d'un garçon africain portant le costume de la circoncision.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m65553 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv120-079-086
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65553
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv120-079-086.jpg
Subject: Boys
Customs and traditions
Initiation rites
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period: 1906
Place: Africa
Shilouvane
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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