cover image: Mbuti person with charms, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Mbuti person with charms, Congo, ca.1920-1940

"Missions des Pères du Saint-Esprit. ̶ Congo Français. Le fétiche Mbouiti près de Loango (au Congo, il est interdit aux femmes de voir ce fétiche sous peine de mort). A member of the Mbuti Pygmie people is shown next to a shrine with three wooden fetishes. Mbuti women are not allowed to view the fetishes on pain of death. There is no handwriting on the back of the postcard
indigenous populations portraits primitive religions

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84427
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Congo Democratic Republic of the Loango
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
impa-yds-rg101-045-0000-0155.tif
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/24d050a022933560bfcf0d5a0f699c3f

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