Portrait of iriabo

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.

Portrait of young woman wearing a wrap around her waist, a beaded cap, and beaded necklaces and armbands as she undergoes the iria "coming of age" festival. This image was reprinted on collotype postcards and published by Photoholm, Lagos by Neils Walwin Holm. Also published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 40 with the description, "Dancing Girl, New Calabar S.N." Image also appears on page 171 with the caption "Akenta Bob in Wedding Dress." The publication reads "James Howie may have known the young woman identified as Akenta Bob (Manuel) of Abonnema in other collections." The print appeared in the Howie Album at the National Museums of Liverpool.

Collection

Nigeria photograph album

Catalog date

ca. 1898

Recorded places

New Calabar Nigeria -- Photographs

Cataloged creator or photographer

Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905

Format and extent

1 Photographic print (B/W)

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