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Chez les Betsiléos : impressions et croquis

Dubois, Henri, 1869-1954 · 1908 · Paris : Casterman · 9 pictures

Chez les Betsiléos is a 1908 Paris book of impressions and sketches by the Jesuit missionary Henri Dubois, published by Casterman for a French readership about the Betsileo people of Madagascar. Its sepia photographs show mission gatherings, villagers carrying water jars across grassland, and groups posed in white cloth before buildings and forest, offering a designer documentary scenes of dress, crowds and community life.

Jesuits · Betsileo (Malagasy people) · Missions

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