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Title: Boy standing outside holding a bow and arrow, Africa, August 1948
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948-08
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: Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description: Photograph of a boy standing outsdie holding a bow and arrow. The boy is resting the bow on the ground and holding the top and arrows in both hands. He is wearing a headband with feathers on it. He is wearing no shirt and has a cloth wrapped around his waist.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w
6.5 x 11 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m64070 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Africa-03-053
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64070
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Africa-03-053.jpg
Subject: Indigenous peoples
Boys
Archery
Portraits
Time Period: 1948-08
Place: Africa
Source: MFB/Africa/03/053 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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