Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Basket makers, Bonny
1897
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.
Published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, on page 173. The caption reads "Green took a series of photos of Africans engaged in local industries, such as palm oil production, weaving, and blacksmithing. The basket weavers' Western-style dress suggests that they are Christians." The four women are posed with two young children. None of them make eye contact with the camera.
- Collection
- Nigeria photograph album
- Catalog date
- 1897
- 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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Catalog reference: EEPA.2000-003, Item EEPA 2000-003-0172
Collection: Nigeria photograph album