- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- A striped ground squirrel with rope(?) leading out of shot. Thatched round houses in the background.
- Geographical reference
- 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: 1998.217.8.53 Previous PRM number: B.17.8.53 Previous other number: JLV53
- 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]
Search terms: Colonial, Fauna, Settlement
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