Tinted lantern slide featuring a class of Ibo women at girls at the manse in Calabar. The women wear smart dresses and most wear a headdress, the gele. The Ibo (Igbo) are a large and influential ethnic group in modern Nigeria. Under British colonization, warrant chiefs (Eze, or kings) were introduced into Igbo territories, which unified the fragmented Igbo community, many members becoming Christian under British missionary influence. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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