Black and white photograph showing an older Nigerian woman in Aro Chuku, in modern Akwa-Ibom state in southeast Nigeria. The woman sits on a wooden chair and wears a patterned dress, and villagers can be seen in the background. The lady sits next to a small girl of around four years of age, wearing a patterned smock dress and a bracelet on one wrist. The caption to this image reads: Iwe-Iwe Mbapo of Aro Chuku Dec 1943, with grandchild. In her youth used to dress slaves for sale. Her husband one of the largest slave owners & a Long Juju priest. She also danced round dead bodies at sacrificial ceremonies. A great power in church & district since conversion." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a medical facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state in southeast Nigeria.
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