Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Group of girls, Bonny
ca. 1895
Bonny (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 "Girls. Bonny." Published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 172 with the description, "The 'ethnographic' tableaux Green staged for the expatriate market allowed him to display his artistry. The caption for another print explains that the young woman on the left, whose dress identifies them as initiates, are engaged in wrestling.".
- Collection
- Nigeria photograph album
- Catalog date
- ca. 1895
- Recorded places
- Bonny (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 metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2000-003, Item EEPA 2000-003-0039
Collection: Nigeria photograph album