Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Sobo women
[18--]
Africa
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: "Sobo women en route for Sapelli Market with palm oil." Six young Native women leave for the marketplace carrying their palm oil on either long poles or balancing it on their heads.
- Collection
- W. H. Himbury photographs
- Catalog date
- [18--]
- Recorded places
- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 13.7 x 20.1 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-024, Item EEPA 1995-240057
Collection: W. H. Himbury photographs