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Title
Girl in traditional outfit, Nigeria, ca. 1936
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1931/1941
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 showing a young Nigerian girl wearing a patterned traditional outfit at the hospital at Ama Achara run by the Methodist Missionary Society. She wears a wrap around her waist, a matching shirt and a head-wrap (or "gele") in the same fabric. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-4-113.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77898
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-4-113.jpg
Subject
Clothing
Hospitals
Children
Customs and traditions
Girls
Ethnic costume
Portraits
Time Period
1931/1941
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/4/113 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Fourth book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-4)
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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