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Title
Village women preparing food, Nigeria, ca. 1921
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1916/1926
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 two Nigerian women preparing food in a village. They both sit on the ground, and one holds a large wooden pestle with which to grind food. Another woman holds a vegetable, such as a yam or cassava. Clay vessels and wicker baskets lie on the ground near the women, some of which are shaded by a canopy with wooden props. Grasses lie on top of the canopy, along with wicker baskets and cooking implements. 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 facility run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-20.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77838
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-20.jpg
Subject
Food customs
Food preparation
Women
Villages
Cooking
Group portraits
Time Period
1916/1926
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
populated places
Source
CSCNWW20/1/2/20 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Second book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-2)
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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