Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Hausa House, Nigeria
1993
Africa; 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.
View of the second story terrace ornamentation, Gidan Dan Hausa, Kano, Nigeria, February of 1993. Photographed by Sujatha Pelletier. Original caption reads, "'Home of the Hausa Man,' a turn-of-the-century mud building commissioned and occupied by a British man who took to Hausa ways and [who] spoke Hausa fluently.".
- Collection
- Sujatha Pelletier photographs
- Catalog date
- 1993
- Recorded places
- Africa; Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Pelletier, Sujatha
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col., 35 mm.)
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1998-003, Item EEPA.1998-003-0009
Collection: Sujatha Pelletier photographs