Men sailing boats up a river, Aropokina, Papua New Guinea, ca.1900-1930

Description

"ARAPOKINA - L'Entree en Nouvelle-Guinee - The entrance to New-Guinea." Four indigenous men navigate two boats up a river. One of the boats has a covering.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur d'Issoudun. -- PAPOUASIE - NOUVELLE-GUINEE (Oceanie) -- Sacred Heart Fathers - Papua." The Sacred Heart Fathers were a Catholic missions agency.

Title:

Record ID:

impa-m13139

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1900/1930

Creator:

[photographer] Unidentified

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Inland water transport , group portraits

Coverage:

[circa] 1900/1930

Place:

[cities] Aropokina
[countries] Papua New Guinea
[continents] Oceania

Relationships

Part Of:

[series] Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
[collection] Mission 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, 8.75 x 13.75 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-m13139

Source:

[record id] YDS/RG101/010/0000/0052