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.2005.060529

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, handwritten in pencil: LB2032; handwritten in red ink: Bl 3; handwritten in pencil: Village [loss] [underlined]; handwritten in black ink: 3 – 11 x 14 / 3 - 8 x 10 glossies; handwritten in pencil: Liberia / People / women / [mark or scribble]; handwritten in pencil: 106-5 / II; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; adhered typed label: Mendingo girls are known to be expensive in taste and also / fashionable in their local ways Quite popular way of dressing / is to have one shoulder bare and make hair in two side braids / Mendingos are Mohammedans generally They are traders They are / very seldom seen working on a job

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