Village women preparing food, Nigeria, ca. 1921

Black and white photograph showing two Nigerian women preparing food in a village. They both sit on the ground, and one holds a large wooden pestle with which to grind food. Another woman holds a vegetable, such as a yam or cassava. Clay vessels and wicker baskets lie on the ground near the women, some of which are shaded by a canopy with wooden props. Grasses lie on top of the canopy, along with wicker baskets and cooking implements. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a facility run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.