Black and white photograph showing an elderly male Nigerian patient at the Ama Achara hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society. He stands in the hospital grounds in front of a wooden chair wearing a shirt and a wrap around his waist. The caption to this image reads: "Old chief - patient - looked like 'Green Pastures' chief figure." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Men Patients Hospitals Chiefs Tribes Missionary work Health services Indigenous peoples Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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