Black and white photograph showing a group of women at the hospital at Ama Achara run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The women have been photographed ready for a traditional or religious festival. The women and girls wear smock dresses, and most wear head-scarves (known as "gele.") This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77842
- Date published
- 1916/1926
- Dates
- 1916/1926
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-8.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/101cd1d597019b53d5c9451b936cee86
