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Title
A chief and his family, Cameroon, ca.1920-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
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
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
"Cameroun - Chef Bamoun et sa famille" ("Bamoun chief and his family"). A family poses with the father sitting in front while the mother and two children stand behind and to the side. The father and oldest son hold spears.
The back of the postcard is blank with a printed address for the publisher: "Ste des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bd Arago, Paris." The Société des Missions Evangéliques was a Protestant organization known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12285 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0015
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12285
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0015.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Family
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Africa
Cameroon
Source
YDS/RG101/004/0000/0015 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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