Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
A Hausa girl watching a young boy construct a small clay pot for ritual washing, Yelwa, Nigeria
1967-1969
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.
Cataloged as “A Hausa girl watching a young boy construct a small clay pot for ritual washing, Yelwa, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
- Collection
- Aylette Jenness Collection
- Archival grouping
- Aylette Jenness Collection / Series 4: Unidentified / Hausa People Working at a Clayworks
- Catalog date
- 1967-1969
- Recorded places
- Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Jenness, Aylette
- Recorded subjects
- Hausa (African people)
- Format and extent
- 1 Negative (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2015-019, Item 2015-019-1702
Collection: Aylette Jenness Collection