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Title
Children standing by fetish house and statues, Nigeria, ca. 1934-40
Creator
Birtwhistle, Norman Allen
Date Created and/or Issued
1934/1940
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"The courtyard of a heathen secret society at Ifaki. The improvements in the buildings of our Methodist Church and school have been an incentive to the refurbishment of this place. Notice the use of the expensive corrugated iron roof. From N.A. Birtwhistle, Ifaki."
Norman Birtwhistle carried out educational work in Nigeria between 1934 and 1940.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type
image
Format
gelatin silver prints,8.5 x 13.9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2358 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-016
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2358
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-022-016.jpg
Subject
Primitive religions
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Birtwhistle, Norman Allen, 1910-1979
Group portraits
Time Period
1934/1940
Place
Africa
Nigeria
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/022/016 [File]
Relation
(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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