Black and white photograph showing a baby cared for by the staff of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society at their hospital in Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria. Miriam sits on the veranda of the hospital in a tin vessel, used as a bath. Miriam was abandoned because she was a twin. Twins were considered unlucky in Nigeria, and many twin babies were abandoned, some of whom survived to be cared for by missionary workers. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Children Health services Missionary work Infants Orphans Church work with orphans Hospitals Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Wakefield, Miriam Portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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