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Title: Boy given to Shendam Mission by government, Nigeria, 1923
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
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: "Antonio aged 12 when on tour. Offspring of cannibals and given to Mission by government when 1 year old" A boy in a tunic is posed in front of a woven straw wall.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 9 x 9 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg030-449-0002-0029.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82560
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg030-449-0002-0029.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Children
Portraits
Time Period: 1923
Place: Africa
Nigeria
Shendam
Source: IMP/YDS/RG030/449/0002/0029 [File]
Relation: Eugene Sirlinger Papers
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff
impa-m980

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