Portrait of Chief Long John sitting in state with his family, 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 2000-003-0090
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original caption reads "Long John. After death. (Chief of Bonny)." This print also appears in the W.H. Himbury Photographic Album, EEPA 1995-0024-037 with the caption "Late slaver Chief [Henry] Long John, sitting in state after death. Principal wives and eldest son around him. Bonny. N.C.P." Published in "African Photographer J.A. Green" edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson, page 168 with the description, "When J.A. Green photographed Chief Ofori Long John's funeral, the Ibani Ijo were still practicing the funerary custom (tanda) of presenting the corpse of local elite seated and dressed in their finest attire for public viewing. His son, Henry Obulu, supports the jaw of his father to assert his position as the rightful heir to the chieftancy seat."