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Title	Paramount chief and retinue, Sierra Leone, ca. 1927-28.
Description	"A Paramount Chief." Paramount chief Fodi with sub-chiefs and retainers coming to greet Deaville Walker. On the left is a Methodist minister.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Daybreak in Mendiland" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. Mendiland is in the south west of Sierra Leone, the home of Mende-speaking people.
Subject	Methodist Missionary Society
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Heads of state
Geographic subject (country)	Sierra Leone
Photographer	Walker, Frank Deaville
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m11626
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
Part of repository	School of Oriental and African Studies
Part of series	Methodist Missionary Society
File	SOAS/MMS/AFW/LS/67/07
Rights	Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Access conditions	http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/archives/services/
Repository name	University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
Repository address	Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Repository email	docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Filename	IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-67-07
Archival file	impa_Volume182/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-67-07.tiff

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