Wooden door frame carved with serpents and faces, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1940

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Title: Wooden door frame carved with serpents and faces, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1940
Published / Created: 1920-1940
Publication Place: Cameroon, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Cameroun Francais - Missions des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin. "5. Art indigene : Case en bambous - Sculptures de la Salamandre." The wooden door frame of a bamboo building is depicted, the wood carved with numerous serpents and crowned with two human faces.
The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is Procure de la Mission : 214, Rue Lafayette - Paris (Xc)". "Edit. M. Brochard, 81, quai Fosse - Nantes".

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 12

Access: Public
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