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Title
Missionary wearing traditional headdress, Delena, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1905-1915
Creator
Dauncey, Harry Moore
Date Created and/or Issued
1905/1915
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
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
Who is he?". H.M. Dauncey wearing ceremonial feather headdress. Categorized as "Delena: Missionaries and Church Work."
One of set of 114 mounted prints by H.M. Dauncey, categorized as: Missionaries and Church Work
Educational
Home Life and Occupations
Manners and Customs or Landscape. Dauncey served the L.M.S. in Papua New Guinea, mainly in the Delena district , for forty years from 1888 to 1928. He published a book for children in 1913, entitled Papuan Pictures, which contains over sixty of his photographs. Dauncey describes the purpose of this book in the epilogue, "To enlist your sympathy and help for those who know a little, and for the many who remain who have never heard of the message, is the aim of these Papuan Pictures.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 12.1 x 9.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m945 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-19-10-008-014
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m945
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-19-10-008-014.jpg
Subject
Customs and Traditions
Clergy
London Missionary Society
Dauncey, Harry Moore, 1863-1932
Portraits
Time Period
1905/1915
Place
Delena
Papua New Guinea
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/PNG/PHOTO/06/008/014 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
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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