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Title: Departure for a missionary tour to Bora-Bora and Maupiti
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923-10-01
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/
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Description: Departure for a missionary tour to Bora-Bora and Maupiti
Two sailboats on the Pacific Ocean. A French flag floats on the left boat.
Comment : Text at the back of the photo: The first [boat] is 35 [miles nautical] from Raiatea island and the last one is 54. The [boat] replaces the wagon used as a means of transport in Lesotho. There are 8 people in this boat of 6m30 of length. On the left, volutes of the open sea which break on the cliff. The [boat] is still in the lagoon, about to go out. October, 1923.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 6.6x8.3 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP173-14816_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88562
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP173-14816_2.jpg
Subject: Evangelistic missionary work
Mission ship
Seas
Maritime transport
Time Period: 1923-10-01
Place: French Polynesia
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.173-14816 [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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