Black and white photograph showing an African acrobat in a village who poses at the top of a wooden pole. The caption to this photograph reads: "African acrobat - in great demand on festival days." The image may have been taken at the opening of the Methodist Church at Ikot Ekpene in December 1933. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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