cover image: Foreign dancers with masks in Cameroon

Foreign dancers with masks in Cameroon

Bamessi dancers at the funeral of Ne Njpadnunke, in Foumban. The photograph was send by Anna Wuhrmann to Jean-René Brutsch, missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society). On the back of the photograph, she wrote "Maskentänzer".
clothing indigenous populations masks dancers

Authors

Wuhrmann, Anna

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m76811
Date published
1910/1930
Dates
1910/1930
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic prints, 7.3x9.3 cm
Place Discussed
Bamum (Cameroon) Cameroon Foumban (Cameroon)
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Cameroon
Reference
impa-m76811 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-DEFAP_CMPFGB-JB019_2
Rights
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
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/a01dd387b1dda5452d357179d7453d1c

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