"Petits enfants paiens avec leurs colliers de coquillages" ("Little children with their collars of shells"). Twenty children pose (half standing, half sitting) with necklaces made of shells. In the background women look on. Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin. The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12311
- Date published
- 1920/1940
- Dates
- 1920/1940
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Cameroon
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Cameroon
- Reference
- impa-m12311 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0041
- Rights
- 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
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/dcbc431a3828c2bf6a75d7174fe8f75c
