Women at Pulka Market. Two women in the foreground have red coloured cropped hair, are wearing blue and black coloured cloth skirts, and a variety of red, yellow and blue beaded accessories around their head, neck, arms and legs. One of the women is carrying a yellow bowl under one arm, and the other has scarification on her back.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: Women at Pulka Market. Two women in the foreground have red coloured cropped hair, are wearing blue and black coloured cloth skirts, and a variety of red, yellow and blue beaded accessories around their head, neck, arms and legs. One of the women is carrying a yellow bowl under one arm, and the other has scarification on her back.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Borno State; Pulka
Person: Photographer Edward Shearman Ross; PRM source Sandra Miller Ross
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 09/1966
Acquisition information: Donated: 14/12/2018
Photographic process: Transparency Kodachrome
Dimensions: Image dimension 35 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2018.313.45

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