Image / Circumcision ceremony, Shilouvane, South Africa, ca. 1930

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Title: Circumcision ceremony, Shilouvane, 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: "L'école de circoncision" ("The circumcision school") Photograph of African boys wearing the circumcision costume during a ceremony in Shilouvane.
Photographie de garçons africains portant le costume de la circoncision durant une cérémonie à Shilouvane.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
4.5 x 6.4 cm.
Identifier: impa-m66143 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv170-101-011
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m66143
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv170-101-011.jpg
Subject: Boys
Customs and traditions
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1930
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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