Chief in traditional dress, Foumban, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1930

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Title: Chief in traditional dress, Foumban, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1930
Published / Created: 1920-1930
Publication Place: Foumban, Cameroon, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Cameroun - Un Des Principaux Chefs De Foumban, Avec Une Cotte De Mailles Datant De Temps Tres Anciens ("One of the Principal Chiefs of Foumban with a Coat of Mail Going Back to Very Old Times"). Portrait of a man on the porch of a stone building dressed in an old coat of mail with his head and chest wrapped in white.
The back of the postcard is blank, with a printed address for the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris" The Société des Missions Evangéliques was a Protestant organization known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.
Extent: 14 x 9 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 4

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