A young girl learning to knit, Omvan, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/08fbf053c01ebd78b62975d013acb966

Title

A young girl learning to knit, Omvan, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

Creator

Unidentified

Date

1920/1940

Description

A young girl wearing a head covering and striped dress knits with a spool of dark thread.; The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title "Cameroun. - Fillette d'Omvan apprenant a tricoter" ("Young girl of Omvan learns to knit") and the name of the mission agency "Editions Peres du Saint-Esprit". The Congregation of the Holy Ghost was a Catholic order that sent missionaries to French colonies in Africa.

Subject

Portraits
Handicrafts
Children

Source

University of Southern California Libraries

Relation

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p15799coll123/id/32612

Type

image

References

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/32612

Citation

Unidentified, “A young girl learning to knit, Omvan, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 1, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/5490.

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