Scheut Missions / Philippines: Igoorot Wedding Preparation Ritual Belgian Mission (Vintage PC ~1920s/1930s)

postcard titled "missiën van scheut : philippijnen. voorbereiding tot het huwelijk van een rijk man." (scheut missions: philippines, preparation for the wedding of a rich man), showing a mountain village scene with a traditional wooden platform/scaffold structure occupied by several children, and three adults in traditional highland dress in the foreground, one wrapped in a striped blanket/cape - likely documenting a wedding ritual of an indigenous highland community in northern luzon.

published for the scheut missions (cicm - congregatio immaculati cordis mariae), a belgian catholic missionary congregation

printed by drukkerij "de beurs", antwerp.

unused card 

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

condition: excellent...please also refer to scans which show complete front and reverse of postcard

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