- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Portrait of a Kanuri woman with scarification on her face and braided hair. She is wearing gold earrings decorated with a clock face.
- Cultural groups
- Kanuri Yerwa
- 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: 2018.313.369
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