Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: 1950s
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060522

Inscriptions:
recto, handwritten in orange pencil: [crop marks on left, top, and right sides of images] / [scribbles near top of figures head]; verso, handwritten in pencil: Village Life [underlined]; Verso, handwritten in black ink: 3 – 11 x 14s / 3 – 8 x 10s glossy sw; handwritten in pencil: 111-7 / III; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; adhered typed label: Native girl with mask-like expression has mud decoration / on face She is one of dancers of the gri-gri bush schools

Credit Line: Black Star Collection, The Image Centre.
Black Star Subject: LIBERIA / PEOPLE WOMEN
Retouching: N