Leaders of Abeokuta with entourage

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.

Nine leaders of Abeokuta photographed with members of their entourage. The man sitting in the center of the second row is the Alake of Egbaland, Gbadebo I, the paramount king of the Egba in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He reigned between 1898 and 1920. Sitting on his left in white is Adepegba, the king's Akigbe. Akigbe praise and entertain the king, announce his coming during visits and the presence of visitors. The man second from the left in the second row is the Mohammedan Chief, Suleiman. The man sitting fourth from the left in the second row is the Agura of Gbagura Olubunmi, who reigned from 1897 to 1910. He is a ruler under the hierarchy of the Alake Gbadebo I. [Information provided by Taiwo Kola-Korolo (PT, DPT, MPH, OCS, CCI) May 2023. He is from the Yoruba speaking tribe of Mahin, in the llaje region of Ondo state, Nigeria. He is from a Royal family on both maternal and paternal lineages and the great, great, great grand scion of King Manuwa of Itebu. Paternally, he is from the Jadigba Dynasty, the gatekeepers of the "Ekine" (the mother of all Masquerades in Mahin). Taiwo is a Board Certified Orthopedic Physical Therapist by trade, Global Health specialist, a Poet, Philatelist and an avid lover and researcher of Anthropology and History. He has invested much time, effort, and resources in researching the history of his region which has not been coherently elucidated thoroughly based on Archival sources.].

Collection

W. H. Himbury photographs

Catalog date

[18--]

Recorded places

Africa

Format and extent

1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 14.4 x 20.2 cm.)

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