Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
African woman grinding corn
[ca. 1910]
Africa; Gold Coast; Ghana
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: "Native woman in workaday costume, grinding young Indian corn, with a stone rolling pin on a stone to make 'kankhi' (kenki) C.C.".
- Collection
- Ghana photographs
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1910]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Gold Coast; Ghana
- Recorded subjects
- Households
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (b&w, 20 x 14 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180043
Collection: Ghana photographs