Black and white photograph showing s male European missionary from the Methodist Missionary Society standing with a group of Nigerian villages in Igumale, in modern Benue state, mid-east Nigeria. A male weaver shows the missionary a length of woven cloth. A woman in the foreground holds up a thread of fine cotton from a spindle. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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