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.2005.060523

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions];verso, handwritten in pencil: 50; handwritten in pencil: Liberia / people / women / 6; 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; handwritten in pencil: 111-7 / III; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR; GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped in black ink, black border: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / [line] / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library

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