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Africa (Nigeria and Benin)
Images of the Yoruba tribe

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Photographer unknown. Images of the Yoruba tribe. 1910s. 26 vintage gelatin silver prints. Various sizes between circa 15 x 12 cm and smaller. Mounted to album pages and bound together in patterned canvas album with cord binding.

This album contains rare photographic documents of the settlement area of the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and Benin (1910s), as well as some later photographs from the same area from the 1930s. The early photos show portraits of various chiefs or medicine men as well as cult objects and dance masks. – Some faded, otherwise in good condition.