Image / African boys wearing circumcision costumes, Shilouvane, South Africa, ca. 1901-1914

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Title: African boys wearing circumcision costumes, Shilouvane, South Africa, ca. 1901-1914
Creator: Dentan, Jules
Date Created and/or Issued: 1901/1914
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "École de circoncision. Élèves en costumes d'herbe entre deux leurs conducteurs" ("Circumcision school. Boys in costumes made of grass between them their leaders") Photograph of African boys wearing circumcision costumes. Five men stand next to them. This photograph was exposed in Bern during the 1914 Swiss National Exhibition.
Photographie de garçons africains portant le costume de la circoncision. Cinq hommes sont debout à leurs côtés. Cette photographie a été exposée à Berne dans le cadre de l'Exposition nationale de 1914.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
Identifier: impa-m66556 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv015-096-001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m66556
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv015-096-001.jpg
Subject: Boys
Customs and traditions
Schweizerische Landesausstellung
Group portraits
Time Period: 1901/1914
Place: Africa
Shilouvane
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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