A Catholic missionary father presides over the funeral of a child. The child is loosely wrapped in a mat, while others stand and sit around the body. The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed in the margin of the correspondence section is "Dominicaansche Missie in Belgisch-Congo" "De missionnaris bij de kerkelijke begrafenis van een Negerkind"
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m60548
- Date published
- 1920/1940
- Dates
- 1920/1940
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic postcards, 10 x 15 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Reference
- impa-m60548 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-023-0000-0056
- 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/602ce4304b3910ed31259e311414e4f3
