Footage shot in the Yoruba town of Ogbomosho, Nigeria. Mrs. Anders, who worked as the supervisor of native nurses in the local hospital, filmed various aspects of daily life including farming, weaving, pottery making, and food preparation. Footage includes scenes of masked dance ceremonies featuring different types of egungun (masked dances), the local chief of the town on his throne receiving obeisance from male subjects, and hospital patients with leprosy.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Carving wooden bowls Nigeria ; Food preparation mortar and pestle Nigeria ; Carrying loads on head Nigeria ; Musical instruments stringed Nigeria ; Hospitals British Nigeria ; Political authority chiefs retainers Nigeria ; Cooking Nigeria ; Plagues locusts Nigeria ; Masks dance egungun Nigeria ; Possession religious Nigeria ; Markets Nigeria ; House construction walls roofs Nigeria ; Prayer Muslims Nigeria ; Pottery making of Nigeria ; Shrines Yoruba Nigeria ; Kneading mortar and pestle Nigeria ; Cattle Brahmin Nigeria ; Games wari Nigeria ; Baptism immersion Nigeria ; Acculturation Christianity Nigeria ; Processions dance Nigeria ; Boy Scouts Nigeria ; Nurses Nigeria ; Disease leprosy Nigeria ; Hides leopard skins political authority Nigeria
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Local Number:
HSFA 1990.21.1
Provenance:
Received from te San Diego Museum of Man in 1990.
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