Picture No | 12018068 |
Date | 1922 |
Description | Ibo (Igbo) woman in ankle plates, Nigeria, West Africa |
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Young Ibo (Igbo) woman wearing metal ankle plates (anklets), Nigeria, West Africa. Apparently a fashion rather than punishment, it is claimed that many of the metal plates were made in Birmingham.
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Source | Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.7, June 1922 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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