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Title
A house built with half logs of pùrau, Canadian style
Creator
Molet
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
A house built with half logs of pùrau, Canadian style
A native family in front of a house
Comment : The pùrau, or 'Beach hibiscus' is a native tree in French Polynesia. Its wood is easy-to-work and resistant.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 13.2x12.9 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15113_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88833
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15113_2.jpg
Subject
Family
Traditional architecture
Houses
Indigenous populations
Place
French Polynesia
Oceania
Source
SMEP/PF.PP.179-15113 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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