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Title
Folk dance at women's anniversary, Nigeria, 1934
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white photograph showing a folk dance at a mission-organised celebration at Eziama, in modern Imo state, south-eastern Nigeria. The celebration is described as a women's anniversary. A group of women stand in a circle, performing a traditional Nigerian folk dance. Their matching uniforms suggest that they are members of the Girls' Life Brigade, a troop of girl guides organised by Miss Brazier, the missionary in charge of evangelistic work at Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The caption to this photograph reads: "Folk dance at Women's Anniversary, Eziama Osa, 1934." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-66.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77739
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-66.jpg
Subject
Customs and traditions
Festivals
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Women
Girl guides
Folk dancing
Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Africa
Eziama
Imo
Nigeria
religious facilities
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/66 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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