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Title
Preparing fu fu (native food), Nigeria, 1933
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1928/1938
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 of a group of Nigerian men preparing fufu. Fufu is a staple food in west and central Africa, and is made from boiled starchy vegetables like cassava, plantain or yams ground into a dough. The men sit with large wooden pestles and mortars, grinding the boiled vegetables. The caption to this image reads: "Preparing fu fu (native food.)" 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.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-171.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77795
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-171.jpg
Subject
Food
Cooking
Grinding
Vegetables
Plant products
Group portraits
Time Period
1928/1938
Place
Africa
Awka-Ibom
Ikot Ekpene
Nigeria
populated places
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/171 [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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