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Title
Playing xylophones and drum, Madimba, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1940
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
"Joueurs de Madimba (scylophone congolais)." A trio of musicians play their instruments. Two play African style xylophones while one plays a conga drum. The name of the publisher "Congo ̶ Propriété de Scheut" is printed on the back of the postcard. Three words in Dutch are handwritten on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0126.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80989
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0126.jpg
Subject
Musicians
Musical instruments
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Madimba
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0126 [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
image/tiff

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