Black and white photograph showing Nigerian women preparing yams for a feast at the opening of the Methodist Church in Ikot Ekpene, Awka Ibom state, in December 1933. The women peel the skins from the yams, whilst a small crowd watches them. The caption to this image reads: "Preparing food for African visitors to Church opening." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77794
- Date published
- 1928/1938
- Dates
- 1928/1938
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Africa Awka-Ibom Ikot Ekpene Nigeria populated places
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-169.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/3aada3faf23810c2a52d813b42e3f567
