Bida, Nigeria (Nupe) photographs
place: label: Place
content: Bida (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Africa
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulbe (African people)
label: Culture
content: Hausa (African people)
label: Culture
content: Nupe (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs belonging to the fiancée of Mr. A.E. Ball, a missionary with the Church Missionary Society in Bida, Nigeria (Nupe). While she was waiting for him in England, he sent numerous photographs with penciled explanations to her, which she kept even after the engagement had ended. Many of the images appear to be the work of A.W. Banfield, a Canadian missionary and a contemporary of A.E. Ball, whose photographs are now in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Identical images are found in Banfield's book, Life Among the Nupe Tribe, (1905). 

Twenty-five of the images are portraits of African men and women in the style and size of cartes de visite. Many more of the images include group photographs of Africans and Europeans. A third subject found among the images is architecture. These images include Nupe buildings in Bida, a cathedral in the Canary Islands, a mosque and the High Commissioner's bungalow in Zumgeru.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 146 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 146 Photographic prints (dupe prints (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
label: Extent
content: 67 Photographic prints (albumen, black & white, 25 x 30 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 79 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 16 x 11 cm. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900-1905
container: label: Container
content: Item 146
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 1997. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1997-014
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints