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Title
Fetish in grass hut on display, Benin, ca.1925
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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
"Fot. Flli D'Amico". Indoors, a small figurine is displayed within a small grass hut. African masks are visible on the wall behind it.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "ESPOSIZIONE MISSIONARIA VATICANA Un feticcio del Dahomey [Benin] (Missioni Africane di Lione)." "Grafia - Sezione Edizioni d'Arte - Roma" "ANNO JUBILEI MCMXXV".
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m58595 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0139
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58595
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0139.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
Africa
Dahomey
Source
YDS/RG101/011/0000/0139 [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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