Image / African chief with his counsellors and messengers, Mhinga, South Africa, 1901

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Title: African chief with his counsellors and messengers, Mhinga, South Africa, 1901
Creator: Rosset, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1901
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Le chef de Mhinga, Soundouga, avec ses conseillers, et ses commissionnaires derrière lui 1901" ("Chief of Mhinga, Soundouga, with his counsellors, and his messengers behind him 1901") Photograph of a group of African men in Mhinga. They sit and stand on rocks and look at the camera. Some of them are wearing crowns.
Photographie d'un groupe d'hommes d'origine africaine à Mhinga. Ils sont assis et debout sur des rochers et regardent en direction du photographe. Certains d'entre eux portent des couronnes.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
12 x 16.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-m65681 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv022-168-015
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m65681
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv022-168-015.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Political leadership
Soundouga
Group portraits
Time Period: 1901
Place: Africa
Mhinga
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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