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Title
Foreign dancers with masks in Foumban, in Cameroon
Creator
Wuhrmann, Anna
Date Created and/or Issued
1913
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Bamessi dancers at the funeral of Nzapadunke, mother of Bamum king Njoya. She died in Foumban, the 2nd of July 1913.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9.1x14 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m76862 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_CMPFGB-JB070_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m76862
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_CMPFGB-JB070_2.jpg
Subject
Masks
Dancers
Clothing
Customs and traditions
Time Period
1913
Place
Bamum (Cameroon)
Cameroon
Source
SMEP/CM.P.FGB-JB070 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
Fonds photographique Bamoun / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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