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2012.20.58

Upper body full face portrait of a man with filed upper teeth, wearing a bead and button necklet.

2012.20.58

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Collection type
Photograph
Description
Upper body full face portrait of a man with filed upper teeth, wearing a bead and button necklet.
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Cultural groups
Banama
Person
Photographer Cecil Hayward
PRM source Alistair Graham Kerr
Date / Period
Date of photograph: 1914
Acquisition information
Donated: 27/02/2012
Photographic process
Print albumen paper
Object numbers
Accession number: 2012.20.58
Associated publications
Object: Big magic in a little walnut box, 1972, Page illustrated: 11, Notes: Published in a newspaper article 'Big magic in a little walnut box', Evening Post, Thursday, May 11, 1972, with the caption 'Bassama Cannibal. Particularly interesting as showing the filed teeth for tearing flesh.' Copy in RDF [OA 14/11/2022]

Search terms: Body Art, Ornament, Portrait

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