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Title: Tifaifai decorating a room, for a pastors' meeting, Leeward Islands
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/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description: Tifaifai decorating a room, for a pastors' meeting, Leeward Islands
Comment : The tifaifai or Polynesian patchwork is a typical fabric of Polynesia. It goes back to the XVIIIth century with the arrival of the women of the first Protestant missionaries, who brought patchwork.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 8.7x6.3 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15185_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88897
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15185_2.jpg
Subject: Textile arts
Place: French Polynesia
Leeward Islands (French Polynesia)
Society Islands
Oceania
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.180-15185 [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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