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Title: Initiation ceremony, Valdezia, South Africa, ca. 1930
Creator: Jaques, Alexandre Auguste
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1930
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: "École d'initiation des filles Vendas" ("Initiation school for Venda girls") Photograph of African girls taking part in an initiation ceremony. Two of them are beating drums. On the left, a third and bigger drum.
Photographie de jeunes filles africaine participant à une cérémonie d'initiation à Valdezia. Deux d'entre elles jouent du tambour. Sur la gauche, un troisième et plus grand tambour.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
4.5 x 6.4 cm.
Identifier: impa-m66158 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv170-101-028
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m66158
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv170-101-028.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Girls
Initiation rites
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1930
Place: Africa
South Africa
Valdezia
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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