photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Af,A50.83
- Description
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Picture of the regatta in Calabar. Showing four canoes and big European ship.
Medium: Black and white.
- Production date
- 1894-1908
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.62 centimetres (AF/A50/83)
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Length: 12.68 centimetres (AF/CA50/83)
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Width: 20.71 centimetres (AF/A50/83)
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Width: 17.73 centimetres (AF/CA50/83)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Cataloguer's Comment: the loose photographs and postcards donated by Lady Menendez were kept in boxes and envelopes.
Geography: Ethnic group suggested by T Cotterill, 28/10/1996.
Circumstances: [MEN-] PIC DOC 12. The same ship is depicted in Af,A50.2, Af,A50.82 and Af,A50.84.
Im Coll: Af,A50.82
Duplicate original photographic print. British Museum Department of Ethnography Pictorial Archive reference number.
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Regattas are done at festivals, caramonies and burials of important men.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1970-1983
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum (?).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A50.83
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AF/CA50/83