Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Sacrificial ceremony, Bonny
ca. 1890s
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 "Fetish rite. Bonny." Appears in W.H. Himbury Album, EEPA 1005-0024-056 with the caption "Sacrificing system Bonny, fowl instead of Human Beings." Appears in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 240. Group portrait portrays a group surrounded by palm trees. Two men holding a chicken turn toward the camera, supposedly reenacting a rite.
- Collection
- Nigeria photograph album
- Catalog date
- ca. 1890s
- 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 2000-003-0059
Collection: Nigeria photograph album