A line of workers standing ankle-deep in water and using shovels to dig at a river bed, possibly sluicing for tin or re-directing water to a pumping station. Headmen watch on from atop the river bank.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: A line of workers standing ankle-deep in water and using shovels to dig at a river bed, possibly sluicing for tin or re-directing water to a pumping station. Headmen watch on from atop the river bank.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Cultural groups: Fulani; Hausa
Person: Photographer John Lucien Vitoria; PRM source John Lucien Vitoria
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 1930 - 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1969
Photographic process: Negative film nitrate
Dimensions: Length x Width 85 x 112 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.217.8.9 Previous PRM number: B.17.8.9 Previous other number: JLV9
Research and responses: Biographical Information - John Lucien Vitoria's wife Edmée Vitoria (Edmée Nikel) who accompanied him during the period 1930-1932 in Nigeria, has been the subject of a biography by her daughter Christine Lehmann, Edmée Nikel: le bonheur de peindre, Somogy éditions de Art, 2008. Vitoria and their time in Nigeria are briefly discussed in this book, and several of the photographs in the PRM collection are reproduced. [CM 10/11/2008]

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