Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
- Meyerowitz, Herbert Vladimir, 1900-1945.
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- 1900-1999
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- 580846i
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1900-1999
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1 photograph : photoprint ; image 17.9 x 12.7 cm
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Dried rats and mice as medicine. A Yeruba woman at the market in Iloffa, Nigeria, selling dried rats and mice as medicine. Two antelope haunches, a native delicacy, are also seen at the back of her basket, covered all over with flies. Copyright by Kurt Lubinski; Phot. H.V. Meyerowitz
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Wellcome Collection 580846i
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