Marriage ceremony
odd: label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on album captions.
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
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content: Nigeria photograph album
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (B/W)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1890s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-003, Item EEPA 2000-003-0009
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original caption reads "Marriage ceremony, N.C.P. [Niger Coast Protectorate]" Published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 226, with the description "Two women wearing waist bells sit at a table, where two bottles support oddly shaped objects. Several small children sit in front of them, and five young women and two men stand behind." The image also appears in Gertie Webster's "Scenes in Nigeria." English Illustrated Magazine 28 (Oct 1902-March 1903), with the description, "After a due amount of vocal, instrumental, and gastronomic demonstrations they [the brides] repair to the spot selected for the necessary formalities, where is discovered a slave holding a skein of wool. The Brides then become seated, the bridegroom remaining standing, while the skein of wool is slowly unwound, at the conclusion of which ceremony they are legally man and wives, their vows being supposed to be bound up in the skein of wool."