Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Group portrait at Chief Koko Bassey's funeral ceremony, Calabar
ca. 1898
Old Calabar (Nigeria)
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Original caption reads "Ceremony at Chief Koko Bassey's Funeral, O.C. 1898." Also appears as a postcard published by Hermann Rampendahl, Hamburg, Germany and is published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 68. The postcard caption reads "Burial Ceremony of the late Chief Coco Ota Bassey, Calabar.".
- Collection
- Nigeria photograph album
- Catalog date
- ca. 1898
- Recorded places
- Old Calabar (Nigeria)
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (B/W)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.2000-003, Item EEPA 2000-003-0116
Collection: Nigeria photograph album