William ELLIS
Lettre autographe signée sur le peuple premier des Vazimba à MadagascarAutograph letter signed on the Vazimba pepople of Madagascar
Hoddesdon Herts [Hoddesdon] 28 février 1871|13.50 x 21 cm|4 pages sur un double feuillet et un simple
Autograph letter signed on the Vazimba pepople of Madagascar
Unpublished autograph letter signed by William Ellis, four pages in black ink on one folded leaf and one single leaf.
Interesting letter by Rev. William Ellis, missionary for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar and author of the earliest preserved photographs of the island.
A beautiful testimony of Ellis' ethnographic approach far from the "theory of the savage" commonly conveyed in European societies. He gives his interlocutor precious information on the Vazimba, still unidentified in the 19th century and described by first explorers as a warlike pygmy people living in the Mal
Unpublished autograph letter signed by William Ellis, four pages in black ink on one folded leaf and one single leaf.
Interesting letter by Rev. William Ellis, missionary for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar and author of the earliest preserved photographs of the island.
A beautiful testimony of Ellis' ethnographic approach far from the "theory of the savage" commonly conveyed in European societies. He gives his interlocutor precious information on the Vazimba, still unidentified in the 19th century and described by first explorers as a warlike pygmy people living in the Mal
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