Black and white photograph showing a sculpture at the entrance to the women's area of the leper colony run by Church of Scotland missionaries at Itu in southeast Nigeria. The colony was founded in 1926 by Dr Andrew Buchanan MacDonald. Women patients can be seen behind the statue and in the window of a building in the background. The caption to his image reads: "Jesus at the well - Sculpture at entrance to women's town Itu Leper Colony - done by Mrs MacDonald wife of Med[ical] Super[intendent]!" 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 Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abis state, southeast Nigeria.
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