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Title
Fetish house, Sierra Leone, ca. 1905-1915
Creator
Walton, James
Date Created and/or Issued
1905/1915
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"A native bridge over a deep river - Mendi-land. The erection to the right is a fetish house. James Walton served in Sierra Leone and Gambia from 1902 to 1920.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 7.6 x 10.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2375 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-012
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2375
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-003-012.jpg
Subject
Primitive religions
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Walton, James, 1878-1965
Time Period
1905/1915
Place
Africa
Sierra Leone
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a/003/012 [File]
Relation
(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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