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Title
Young girls embroider a cope, Burkina Faso, ca.1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
29. - Brodeuses Travaillant Une Chape." ("29. - Embroiderers Working on a Cope.") Two indigenous girls wearing white headbands and cross necklaces embroider a large piece of fabric.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "HAUTE-VOLTA - 29. - Brodeuses travaillant une chape - Upper-Volta - Young girls embroidering a cope." The back also contains information about the publisher: "Missions des Peres Blancs - Missions of the White Fathers - Librairie Missionnaire - 26, rue Vavin - Paris VIe - Peres Blancs, Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil, Bonnelles (S.-&-O.)
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 10 x 15 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12938 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0078
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12938
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0078.jpg
Subject
Handicrafts
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
(city)
Africa
Burkina Faso
Source
YDS/RG101/007/0000/0078 [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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