Women preparing a meal. Jos Plateau, Nigeria

Object Details

Local Numbers: EENG-VII-29, 29.
General: Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
Local Note: Typed index card reads, "J 1 Mgo. Miango. Nigeria, Jos Plateau. Women cooking millet porridge. 1/1971. EE. neg.no. VII-29, 29." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.

See more items in: Eliot Elisofon Field collection; Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria

Archival Repository: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Type: Archival materials; Negatives (photographic); Black-and-white negatives; Negatives

Collection Citation: Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

Collection Rights: Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. Where noted, some images remain under the copyright of Life/Shutterstock. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Scope and Contents: "The need for privacy is apparently seldom felt. Indeed the very lay-out of the dwellings points in this direction; around a circular interior yard which serves as a parlour, living-room, kitchen, workshop etc. for everybody, as many huts opening on the yard are constructed as the number of rooms of which a house is supposed to consist." [Neiers, M.de P., 1979: The Peoples of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. European University Papers]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.

Collection Restrictions: Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.