IDNO

T.172983.PH

Description

On Manual Listing: "Rural Kano Negs 28 to 91Q'.
90. Alhaji Zawal (see R.K. [Rural Kano] p.109) - although well over eighty, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca, but died from stress on his return." [Hill's caption]

Portrait of Alhaji Zawal, a man, well over 80, from Kano. [LB 14/08/2024]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Alhaji Zawal

Photographer

Hill, Polly

Collector / Expedition

Date

September 1967

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. pp.109.
"Towards the end of the work, the services of an extraordinary personality and well known Koranic scholar, Malam (sub-sequently Alhaji) Zawal of Ja'en Yamma, became available; seeing him striding fast across the countryside, it was hard to believe that he was well over eighty years old." [LB 14/08/2024]