Black and white photograph showing a group of Nigerian women after a morning service at Ama Achara, south-eastern Nigeria. The Methodist Missionary Society ran a hospital at Ama Achara. Women wear patterned or plain smock dresses, and head-wraps (gele) around their heads. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
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