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Object Number
1998.335.17
Format
Format: Print
Photographic Process
Photographic process: Print gelatin silver
Dimensions
Height x Width 69.00 x 94.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm; Height x Width 77.00 x 104.00 mm
Description
View of a cemetery surrounded by a metal fence, with six crosses on graves visible (one partly hidden), with a British officer in civilian clothes – identified as Capt. Henry Gallwey – pictured in the foreground looking at them.
Geographical Provenance
Africa -> Western Africa -> Nigeria, Delta State; Warri
Cultural Groups
European -> British
Persons
Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Named Person: Henry Lionel Gallwey; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins
Named Persons
Capt. Henry Lionel Gallwey
Dating
Date of photograph: 02/1897 - 04/1897, uncertain
Acqu. Date
Donated: 1968
Primary Documentation
Notes on print/mount: 'R' (ink); 'Landon' (pencil); 'RKG' (pencil) (being initials and/or annotations on reverse of print, in various hands and in ink and pencil). It is not explicitly clear to what or whom these refer, beyond being the initials or names of British officers on the military campaign.; Notes on print/mount: 'Warri on the Niger River' (handwritten caption in black ink above the print on page mount); '17.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'White man's cemetery' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount); 'Gallwey' (name identifying the man pictured in the photograph).