Women preparing couscous, Kabylie, Algeria, ca.1900-1930

Description

"Algerie et Kabylie - Kabylie - Ste-Eugenie - Preparation du couscous pour les malades. Les deux grosseurs de semoule melangees, les femmes humectent et roulent le grain. qu'elles passeront ensuite au tamis et feront cuire a la vapeur." ("Algeria and Kabylie - Kabylie - St Eugenie - Preparation of the couscous for the patients. The two mix the lump of semolina, the women moisten and roll the grain. Then they will pass it through the sieve and steam.") A missionary sister poses with nine indigenous women who are in the process of making couscous in large bowls.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Soeurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d' Afrique, St-Charles - Edition G.-L. ARLAUD - LYON, Repr. interdite." The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa were a Catholic missionary order.

Title:

Record ID:

impa-m12885

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1900/1930

Creator:

(photographer)

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Food preparation , Women , group portraits

Coverage:

[circa] 1900/1930

Place:

[cities] Kabylie
[countries] Algeria
[continents] Africa

Relationships

Part Of:

[series] Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
[collection] Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
[series] Missionary Postcard Collection

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

photographs

Previous Formats:

photographic postcards, 9.5 x 14 cm.

Access

Rights:

[owner] Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library

Repository:

Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Divinity.Library@yale.edu

Ordering:

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/reproductions.html

Identifiers

Record ID:

impa-m12885

Source:

[record id] YDS/RG101/007/0000/0025