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Title
Boating down the Gagan river on Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, ca.1900-1930
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
"Mission des Salomon Septentrionales - Dans la riviere de Gagan (Ile Buka)." ("Mission of Northern Solomon - On the Gagan river (Buka Island).") Nine indigenous men and six European men travel down a river in two long canoe-like boats.
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13169 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0082
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13169
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0082.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Inland water transport
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Source
YDS/RG101/010/0000/0082 [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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