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Title
A girl participating in initiation rites
Creator
Muller, René
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/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
A girl participating in initiation rites
a young woman kneeling down, arms behind the back, in front of the door of a house: she has to eat on the floor.
Use of document : Photograph published in Le Journal des missions, in February, 1951. Photo of the Newspaper ""The Friend"", Bloemfontein
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 8.8x6 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_LSPP170-14360_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-87252
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_LSPP170-14360_2.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Girls
Initiation rites
Place
Africa
Basutoland (Africa)
British Empire
1868-1966
Source
SMEP/LS.PP.170-14360 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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