IDNO

T.172965.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
72. weavers - see R.K [Rural Kano] p.13." [Hill's caption]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Kano

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

February 1972

Collection Name

Polly Hill Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.773001.PH - T.773189.PH were located in a cardboard box, now numbered C773/.

T.172926.PH - T.172999.PH were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C773/2.

Bibliographical reference: Rural Kano: Hill, P. (1977) Population, prosperity and poverty : rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "Hill talks about Shea's research. Cotton dyed with indigo was woven across the Kano Emirate, vast amounts of cotton being imported from the Zaria Emirate as well as being grown within the Kano Emirate. Given that cotton was imported from the south and because the south of Kano Emirate had the highest quality indigo, most of the important cloth production was done in the south of Kano city "where the water table was conveniently high". [LB 14/08/2024]