- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Indigo dye pits in Kano.
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 1963 - 1964
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 9/06/2016
- Photographic process
- Transparency Colour
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2016.17.49
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