Girls posed with props, Bonny

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 "Bonny girls." Published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 224 with the description, "Two young women semi-recline in front of two others. The second pair sits facing each other with their hands wrapped around the neck of a large pot, which they appear to hold between their knees. Two more women, clad in wrappers, stand in the background. One holds a rectangular container that contains a pot or calabash." Four of the women wear bells around their waists.

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)

Explore Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art ↗