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Women's secret society of Gabon

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1163889


Item data

Title

Women's secret society of Gabon

Collection

The fetish folk of West Africa

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1912
Place: New York, Chicago [etc.]
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc 916.72-M (Milligan, R. H. Fetish folk of West Africa)

Subjects

Africa, West -- Description and travel
Gabon
Women -- Societies and clubs
Women -- Clothing & dress -- Africa

Genres

Photographs

Physical Description

Halftone photomechanical prints

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR3256770-B
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11721700
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ddf3fca0-c62a-012f-7341-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1912

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Women's secret society of Gabon" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1912. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddf3fca0-c62a-012f-7341-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1912). Women's secret society of Gabon Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddf3fca0-c62a-012f-7341-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Women's secret society of Gabon" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddf3fca0-c62a-012f-7341-58d385a7bc34

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