photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A57.134
- Description
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Nigeria, frontal head and torso portrait of Sura adult female. Wearing neck-ornaments including metal chain, lip-ornament, wrist-ornaments, narrow head-band. Carrying calabash on head. Sky as backdrop.
Format: One of four prints mounted on album page.
. Small group of adult females and a child, sitting on ground outdoors. Wearing personal-ornaments including disc-shaped lip-plugs and ear-plugs, bowl-shaped hair-styles. Two females dressing hair of other two females, using small pointed tools. Female at right holding young child.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
Format: One of four prints mounted on album page.
- Production date
- 1947
- Dimensions
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Length: 9.70 centimetres
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Width: 6.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Main Themes of Album: Daily life and settlements on the Nigerian Plateau, including views and informal portraits. Album contains 137 photographs.
Circumstances: [DEN-] PIC DOC 71.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1947-1970
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A57.134