This collection consists of color 35 mm slides, B/W negatives and contact sheets taken by John Pemberton III during his field research in Nigeria from 1977-1992, which focus primarily on the Ila-Orangun region. Images depict scenes of towns and people; monarchy, palace and chiefs; Orisha shrines and festivals; divination and sacrifice; masquerades; Christianity and Islam; and art and artists. Some images of Lagos, Ibadan, Oshogbo, Ile-Ife, and Ekiti.
Provenance:
Donated by John Pemberton III, 2014 and 2016.
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Rights:
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Leaders of Abeokuta with British colonial officials
Extent:
1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 15.5 x 20.7 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Africa
Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Date:
[18--]
Scope and Contents:
Standing farthest from the right is the Agura of Gbagura Olubunmi, who reigned from 1897 to 1910. He is a ruler under the hierarchy of the Alake Gbadebo I. Standing next to him is a man named Adepegba, the king's Akigbe. Akigbe praise and entertain the king, announce his coming during visits and the presence of visitors.
Standing third from the left is the Alake of Egbaland, Gbadebo I, the paramount king of the Egba in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He reigned between 1898 and 1920.
Standing third from the left in the second row, wearing a head covering, is the Mohammedan Chief, Suleiman.
The white man wearing a kilt is Sir William MacGregor, K.C.M G., C.B., Governor of Lagos.
[The information above is provided by Taiwo Kola-Korolo (PT, DPT, MPH, OCS, CCI), through his research. He is a Nigerian from the Yoruba speaking tribe of Mahin, in the llaje region of Ondo state. He is from a Royal family on both maternal and paternal lineages and the great, great, great grand scion of King Manuwa of Itebu. Paternally, he is from the Jadigba Dynasty, the gatekeepers of the "Ekine" (the mother of all Masquerades in Mahin).
Taiwo is a Board Certified Orthopedic Physical Therapist by trade, Global Health specialist, a Poet, Philatelist and an avid lover and researcher of Anthropology and History. He has invested much time, effort, and resources in researching the history of his region which has not been coherently elucidated thoroughly based on Archival sources in the Literatures.]
Local Numbers:
EEPA 1995-024-0028
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Collection Rights:
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MS 3941 Materials assembled by Hewitt for preparation of articles in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30 and for replies to inquires from the public
Collector:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 Search this
Contents: Adirondack tribe (St Lawrence River) Old Manuscript Number 3553. Adoption Old Manuscript Number 4007. Refers to Algonquian method of counting -only; see Haas note 2/18/72; Old Manuscript Number 3864. "Alligewi"; Animism Old Manuscript Number 3867 and 2842-c, box 6. Blood Indians, origin of name; Brant, Joseph Old Manuscript Number 3874. Chippewa, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3646. Chiefs, function and significance of Old Manuscript Number 2842-c, box 6. Delaware tribe, New Jersey area claimed by Old Manuscript Number 3866. Detroit River, tribes near; Ekaentoton Island-- see Ste. Marie Island Environment (Bulletin 30 draft by O. T. Mason) Old Manuscript Number 4007. Erie, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3646. Erie and Black Mincqua tribes Old Manuscript Number 3586. [Eskimo] Arctic tribes, leaving elderly and sick people to die Old Manuscript Number 3668. Family, Bulletin 30 draft and notes Old Manuscript Number 4011 and 2842-c, box 6. Grand River (Tinaatoua), name of; Hebrew calendar; Hewitt, list of Bulletin 30 articles by Old Manuscript Number 4066. Hoboken, origin of name; Iroquois, "On the Northern and Eastern Territorial Limits of the Iroquoian people, in the 16th Century," and Algonquian tribes, at Chaleur Bay. Iroquois at Gulf of St Lawrence and Bay of Gaspe Old Manuscript Number 3625.
Iroquois, location of Six Nations tribes reservations Old Manuscript Number 3763. Iroquois false face; Iroquois preparation of corn ("as food") Old Manuscript Number 4009. Iroquoian early dress Old Manuscript Number 3660. Iroquoian "Gachoi" tribe, identity of (Correspondence with F. Bogaskie.) Old Manuscript Number 3816. Iroquoian moon names and concept of time; Iroquoian social organization, and place name-name origins; "Man," Iroquoian term for Old Manuscript Number 3781. Iroquoian towns Old Manuscript Number 4006. Kentucky, meaning of the word; Kentucky, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3840. Lenni Lenape, meaning of the word; Logstown-- see Shenango Old Manuscript Number 3773. Lost Ten Tribes as American Indians Old Manuscript Number 3670. Mayan linguistic family and other Mayan linguistic notes including Quiche and Tepehuanan notes Old Manuscript Number 3473. Mexico: idols, sacrifices, etc. Old Manuscript Number 3807. Mexico: Indian languages. Letter from Captain W.E.W. MacKinley Old Manuscript Number 3778. Missouri, Indian village, location of Old Manuscript Number 3944. Mohawk land near Lake Champlain; Mohawk grammar; Montour family, notes for Bulletin 30 Old Manuscript Number 3812. Muskhogean social organization. Letter from J. J. Harrison. Old Manuscript Number 3891. New England tribes Old Manuscript Number 3513.
Niagara, origin of name; "Old Smoke"-- see Sayenqueraghta Old Manuscript Number 3949. Onondaga tribe, text of memorial inscription to, and correspondence Old Manuscript 4391 and 4271- box 1 (part.) Ontwaganha or Toaganha, origin and meaning of name Old Manuscript Number 3864. Owego, meaning of town's name; Pekwanoket tribe (Cape Cod); Pemaquid, Abnaki word and its origin Old Manuscript Number 89. Piasa bird- pictograph formerly near present Alton, Illinois. Article is similar to that by Cyrus Thomas, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. Old Manuscript Number 3981. Potawatomi, notes on the name Old Manuscript Number 4034. Potawatomi Green Corn Dance; Roanoke, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3998. Sacagawea, spelling of; St Ignace, 3 settlements (Michigan); St Marie Island or Ekaentoton Island; Sauk, Bulletin 30 article and galley proof, notes Old Manuscript Number 3764. Sayenqueraghta or "Old Smoke" (correspondence with Alanson Skinner) Old Manuscript Number 3949. Scalping Old Manuscript Number 4025. Shenango and Logstown Old Manuscript Number 3773. Sioux, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3624. Society of American Indians, resolutions by thanking General Hugh L. Scott, Fr. Anselm Webber and others Old Manuscript Number 3868. Susquehanna, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3707. Tacoma, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3470.
Thunderbird, notes on Old Manuscript Number 3552. Tinaatoa-- see Grand River; Toronto, origin of name; Tuscarora villages Old Manuscript Number 3998. Wampum Old Manuscript Number 3998. War club with inscription; West Virginia panhandle tribes Old Manuscript Number 3945. Williams, Eleazer Old Manuscript Number 3998. Women, status of Old Manuscript Number 3566. Wyandots (Huron) List of tribes of which Wyandots of today are constituted. Old Manuscript Number 3774.
174 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, albumen prints , 15.5 x 23 cm. or smaller)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Nigeria
Africa
Madeira Islands
Bonny (Nigeria)
Sapele (Nigeria)
Brass (Nigeria)
Old Calabar (Nigeria)
Opobo Town Nigeria -- Photographs
Africa -- Colonization
Niger Coast Protectorate -- 1893-1899
Date:
[circa 1890-1900]
Summary:
This album was likely compiled by a British official posted in the Niger Delta between the 1890s and 1900. It contains photographs of British officers and troops around the British invasion of the Benin Kingdom as well as views of the British-imposed Oil Rivers Protectorate and Niger Coast Protectorate in Old Calabar, Opobo, and Bonny. It also includes portraits of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms.
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains photographs of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms. Portraits included are Prince Archibong III of Old Calabar, New Calabar Chief and Wives, Lady Egba and Chief Chief Ogbe Yonwuren, Ladies of Rank in Old Calabar, Eyo Honesty VIII, Chief Long John of Bonny, chiefs of Opobo, and Chief Oko Jumbo. Portraits of British subjects included are of Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald and Lady Ethel Macdonald, Roger Casement, Sir Ralph Moor, Mary Kingsley, Deputy J.R. Phillips, Dr. R.A. Shekleton, Commissioner A. Harcourt, Mr. T.A. Wall, and Captain Boler. Includes scenes of weddings, iria outfits, steamships, regattas, the Queen's Jubilee of 1897, British colonial officials, trading ports, sports, coffee plantations, and consulates in Bonny, Warri, Old Calabar, Opobo, Kwa Ibo, and Sapele. Some landscape views of Madeira.
Arrangement note:
Images indexed by negative number.
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Original caption reads "A Musoga chief, with Luka, a peculiar draped cloth: usually made in bark cloth."
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Sir H. McCallum, colonial staff, and the Chiefs of Hinterland traveling over portion of first British Railway, Lagos
Extent:
1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 13.9 x 21.1 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Africa
Lagos (Nigeria)
Date:
1897
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads: "Sir H. McCallum and staff taking Chiefs of Hinterland over portion of first British Railway, 1897." Four railway carts are filled to capacity with chiefs and their entourages. Each cart has "Lagos Government Railway" painted on it. Sir McCallum and Chiefs sit in the lead cart.
Local Numbers:
EEPA 1995-024-0015
Collection Restrictions:
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The Alake and his Council, group portrait at the Opening of the Courts, Lagos, Nigeria
Extent:
1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 13.9 x 20.5 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Africa
Africa -- Colonization
Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Lagos (Nigeria)
Date:
[18--]
Scope and Contents:
Eleven Chiefs donned in ceremonial dress are seated with Colonial officials, at the opening of the Lagos Courts.
The man sitting second from the left is the Alake of Egbaland, Gbadebo I, the paramount king of the Egba in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He reigned between 1898 and 1920. Sitting on the left of the Alake, under the largest umbrella, is his Government Secretary.
The fifth sitting man from the left is the Agura of Gbagura Olubunmi, who reigned from 1897 to 1910. He is a ruler under the hierarchy of the Alake Gbadebo I.
To the right of the Agura, beside the child and at the center of the first row, is the Mohammedan Chief, Suleiman.
Each ruler is accompanied by their entourage, which hold umbrellas over the leaders to keep them from the sun and signify their prestige. The four men sitting to the right of the white colonial officials are more chiefs, possibly from the lower Niger region.
The white man sitting on the far right wearing a pith helmet, is Cyril Punch. The mustached man to the left of Punch is W.H. Himbury.
[The information above is provided by Taiwo Kola-Korolo (PT, DPT, MPH, OCS, CCI), through his research. He is a Nigerian from the Yoruba speaking tribe of Mahin, in the llaje region of Ondo state. He is from a Royal family on both maternal and paternal lineages and the great, great, great grand scion of King Manuwa of Itebu. Paternally, he is from the Jadigba Dynasty, the gatekeepers of the "Ekine" (the mother of all Masquerades in Mahin).
Taiwo is a Board Certified Orthopedic Physical Therapist by trade, Global Health specialist, a Poet, Philatelist and an avid lover and researcher of Anthropology and History. He has invested much time, effort, and resources in researching the history of his region which has not been coherently elucidated thoroughly based on Archival sources in the Literatures.]
Local Numbers:
EEPA 1995-024-0027
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
