{"id":1387,"date":"2020-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/bildvorlage-mit-botschaft\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:05:36","slug":"image-template-with-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/bildvorlage-mit-botschaft\/","title":{"rendered":"Image template with message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clich\u00e9 referred to the corresponding printing technique after the French term for \"copy\" and not the clich\u00e9 as a stereotype, even if the illustrations were sometimes close to the clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The Clich\u00e9 Book of the Basel Mission also contains this picture entitled \"Chief on the Parade Bed - New Zealand\". It shows a seated man surrounded by various utensils, bones and severed heads, and a totem pole.<\/p>\n

In the Baroque era, a parade bed was the ceremonial reception bed of a ruler; for example, of Louis XIV or Maria Theresa. These may have been more sumptuously furnished than that of the Maori chief.<\/p>\n

A parade bed, however, also referred to a framework with which the corpse of a highly placed person was publicly displayed for show. And indeed: In the \"Calwer historical picture book of the world\" of 1883, the same clich\u00e9 is printed, side-inverted and with a different title: \"Dying chief surrounded by the skulls of his slain enemies.\"<\/p>\n

Accordingly, no tribal leader is depicted here in the expectation of receiving gracious guests, but a man in the face of his death. The totem pole indicates that this is not a Christian. The paraphernalia of past battles, such as shield and sword, are discarded and hanging on a fence.<\/p>\n

The bones and skulls symbolize that this chief was a cannibal. Surrounding him are the impaled heads of his former enemies. They may remind him of past battles, but also of the futility of his life. So many people he has killed, but to what end? Now he himself is about to follow them into death.<\/p>\n

This is then the message of this clich\u00e9: to reflect on one's life in the face of death, to consider it good or to regret it. Even if it means looking into the eyes of those you have harmed.<\/p>\n

Text: Patrick Moser, historian and research associate in the Mission 21 archives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The South Pacific was not a mission area of the Basel Mission. Accordingly, we have few pictures from this region in our photo collection. In order to be able to illustrate reports in books and magazines despite the lack of material, publishers in the 19th century resorted to so-called \"clich\u00e9 books\". With their help, they could choose from a large number of predefined illustrations. The publishing house of the Basel Mission also produced such a clich\u00e9 book in 1881 with around 2000 pictures, divided according to countries and 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