Portrait of iriabo
odd: label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on album captions.
name: label: Creator
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
label: Collection Photographer
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
place: label: Place
content: New Calabar Nigeria -- Photographs
creator: label: Creator
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
setName: label: See more items in
content: Nigeria photograph album
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (B/W)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1898
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-003, Item EEPA 2000-003-0167
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Portrait of young woman wearing a wrap around her waist, a beaded cap, and beaded necklaces and armbands as she undergoes the iria "coming of age" festival. This image was reprinted on collotype postcards and published by Photoholm, Lagos by Neils Walwin Holm. Also published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 40 with the description, "Dancing Girl, New Calabar S.N." Image also appears on page 171 with the caption "Akenta Bob in Wedding Dress." The publication reads "James Howie may have known the young woman identified as Akenta Bob (Manuel) of Abonnema in other collections." The print appeared in the Howie Album at the National Museums of Liverpool.