Image / Woman with elaborate ear decorations, Kenya, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Woman with elaborate ear decorations, Kenya, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
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: "Missione del Kenya - Serie VI - Usi Indigeni." "61 - I bastoncini infilzati nell'orecchio servono da orecchini." A woman is shown from the waist up, wearing numerous necklaces and a wrap of stitched fabric. She has numerous large metal bolts and washers piercing her ears and elongating her earlobes.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed at the top of the correspondence section is "Istituto - Collegio Internazionale Della Consolata per le Missioni Estere - Torino (17) Corso Ferruccio, 16 "La Consolata" periodico mensile - Abbonamento L. 5 annue".
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m59333 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-015-0000-0041
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m59333
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-015-0000-0041.jpg
Subject: Fashion
Customs and traditions
Portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Kenya
Source: YDS/RG101/015/0000/0041 [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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