Side portrait of a seated woman wearing a yellow patterned dress tied across one shoulder. She has close cropped hair and has a lower lip piercing (labret) with a long white ivory plug. In the background is a similarly dressed woman, with red and blue beaded necklace and earring.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: Side portrait of a seated woman wearing a yellow patterned dress tied across one shoulder. She has close cropped hair and has a lower lip piercing (labret) with a long white ivory plug. In the background is a similarly dressed woman, with red and blue beaded necklace and earring.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Borno State; Mandara Mountains; Gudef
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: 2018.313.263

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