M0005707: Protection from smallpox in the courtyard of house in Abong, Nigeria / M0005707EB: Okomono small pox medicine

Previous title, replaced August 2020: 'Medicine' for smallpox in courtyard of house in Abong

Two images on one negative: the first is a photograph of a ward to protect the house against theft or disaster taken at a house in Abong, Nigeria. The second is a photograph of a smallpox rememdy in a village of the Ekoi people in southeast Nigeria. They were reproduced as plate 24, figure 3 and figure 4 in Parkinson, John: "A Note on the Efik and Ekoi Tribes of the Eastern Province of Southern Nigeria, W.C.A." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol.37 (1907). Related images: M0005705

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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