Black and white photograph showing an older Nigerian man in the village of Igumale, modern Benue state, mid-east Nigeria. He wears traditional dress and stands next to a wooden pole, which could be his walking stick. A Nigerian young female nurse can be seen in the background of the picture. There is a corrugated iron building with drainage in the background, which may be a medical facility. The caption to this image reads: "Mental case - thinks he is Lieut. Governor [of Nigeria]." The Methodist Missionary Society had a mission station in Igumale, and this photograph was taken on a trek to Igumale by missionaries based in southeast Nigeria. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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