Alh. Abdullahi Abdul-Salami, Imam Idiaro, of Ile Onigaari, Balogun Alanamu Ward, Ilorin
name: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
label: Collection Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria
creator: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ann O'Hear Collection
label: See more items in
content: Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 1: Leatherworking in Ilorin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004, Item EEPA 2016-004-0001
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Imam Idiaro was a leatherworker and Ann O'Hear's most important informant on leatherworking in Ilorin. In 1988, he was an imam and ran an Arabic school (in which he is standing in the photograph). The office of imam for the immediate area passes down through the male members of Ile Onigaari. The name of the compound translates from Yoruba as "saddlemakers' compound" and it has had close connections with the horseowning warrior elite. Although the compound had been important for leatherworking, by 1988 it would appear that no one there was still engaged in the craft.