Tinted lantern slide featuring a class of Ibo women at girls at the manse in Calabar. The women wear smart dresses and most wear a headdress, the gele. The Ibo (Igbo) are a large and influential ethnic group in modern Nigeria. Under British colonization, warrant chiefs (Eze, or kings) were introduced into Igbo territories, which unified the fragmented Igbo community, many members becoming Christian under British missionary influence. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78464
- Date published
- 1930/1940
- Dates
- 1930/1940
- Format
- Lantern slides Photographs
- Pages
- lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa Calabar Cross River Nigeria educational facilities
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSWC47-LS9-27.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/36ad64a466782871090795e406239d8e
