Full-length portrait of a woman holding a head pan, used for transporting broken gravel to a mining dump, by her side. Other women, turned facing the camera, are holding pans on their heads. A headman dressed in robes is watching on from a distance.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: Full-length portrait of a woman holding a head pan, used for transporting broken gravel to a mining dump, by her side. Other women, turned facing the camera, are holding pans on their heads. A headman dressed in robes is watching on from a distance.
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: 1998.217.8.22 Previous PRM number: B.17.8.22 Previous other number: JLV22
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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