Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Hair Braiding
1967
Africa; 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.
Photograph taken by Janet Stanley of a woman having her hair plaited, 1967. The original caption reads, "Awudome-Tsito, local woman getting her hair plaited, sitting adjacent to the kitchen shed. at the secondary school in Awudome-Tsito, where the workcamp was located. The women were from the town; they had been engaged to cook for the four-week camp.".
- Collection
- Janet Stanley Ghana photographs
- Catalog date
- 1967
- Recorded places
- Africa; Ghana
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Stanley, Janet
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) ((1 v., col.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1998-004_ref511
Collection: Janet Stanley Ghana photographs