Sacrificial ceremony, Bonny
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: Bonny (Nigeria)
creator: label: Creator
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 2000-003-0059
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original caption reads "Fetish rite. Bonny." Appears in W.H. Himbury Album, EEPA 1005-0024-056 with the caption "Sacrificing system Bonny, fowl instead of Human Beings." Appears in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 240. Group portrait portrays a group surrounded by palm trees. Two men holding a chicken turn toward the camera, supposedly reenacting a rite.