Women with sickles in the field, Lesotho, ca. 1900-1930

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Title: Women with sickles in the field, Lesotho, ca. 1900-1930
Published / Created: 1900-1930
Publication Place: Lesotho, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Four indigenous women stand in a field of tall grass. The women wear crosses and carry sickles. Two wear white clothes; one in the center wears a polka dot dress.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "BASUTOS. - La faucille sur l'epaule, le chapelet en sautoir, elles vont a la moisson...La jeune Eglise connait elle aussi les belles moissons d'or." ("BASUTOS. - The sickle on the shoulder, the chain in the saltire, they go to the harvest... the young Church knows it also the beautiful gold harvests") The postcard is issued by the "Missions des Oblats de Marie Immaculee" and published by "Editions Apostoliques, 36, Rue de Trion, Lyon."
Extent: 14 x 9 cm.

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 6

Access: Public
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