cover image: Bread Fruit Tree Ikorofiong, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1900-1910

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Bread Fruit Tree Ikorofiong, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1900-1910

Black and white lantern slide picturing a bread fruit tree with a fruit clearly visible in the foreground. The tree is in a courtyard of brick buildings with corrugated iron roofs, and men and boys stand below the tree. Other men can be seen entering a rear building. Missionary Zerub Baillie set up a mission station at Ikorofiong after the death of King Eyo of Creek Town in 1858. Ikorofiong was an Efik outpost on Ibibio land. The breadfruit tree is a member of the Moraceae (fig) family. 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.)
trees general views artocarpus breadfruit

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78486
Date published
1900/1910
Dates
1900/1910
Format
Lantern slides Photographs
Pages
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Place Discussed
Africa Calabar Cross River Nigeria forests
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSWC47-LS9-49.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/e380146a906e2ed37480cf9821fa593d

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