IDNO

T.172882.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Batagarawa and neighbourhood - the Katsina village which is the subject of 'Rural Hausa'.
20. P.H.'s [Polly Hill's] valuable assistant Sabi'u Nuhu (in white riga) who organised the building of her house. (See R.H [Rural Hausa]).
(In return he and the District Head's student son dined with P.H. every evening - they could not eat with their fathers.)" [Hill's caption]

Group portrait of Sibi'u Nuhu, Polly Hill's assistant, in the centre with a unnamed girl on his right, and Polly's daughter on the left. An adobe building is in the background. [LB 09/07/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Katsina State; Batagarawa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Sabi'u Nuhu; Polly Hill's daughter: Susannah Humphreys

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

September 1967

Collection Name

Polly Hill Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.172863.PH - T.173051.PH were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C773/.

T.172863.PH - T.172925.PH were located in a cream envelope, now numbered C773/1.

Bibliographical Reference: In Rural Hausa: Hill, P. (1972) Rural Hausa : a village and a setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. xiii. Hill writes "Acknowledgements It would be impossible for me to exaggerate the debt of gratitude I owe to Mohammed Sabi'u Nuhu who, in my absence, collected much of the material in this book. In 1966, when on vacation from Ahmadu Bello University, M. S. Nuhu worked as my assistant on an enquiry on trade and marketing, and happened to suggest a visit to Batagarawa, his home village." [LB 16/07/2024]