- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- View of a crowd of people of the Fartus tribe, with a flag overhead and rifles raised, dancing the hausa (tribal war dance).
- Cultural groups
- Fartus
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 1956
- Acquisition information
- Acceptance in Lieu: 03/2004
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.130.16057.1 Previous PRM number: WT.1956.19.14 Previous other number: 1956/19.14
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