Ikoko chief ready for burial – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Ikoko chief ready for burial, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ikoko chief ready for burial
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The caption identifies its subject as a chief of the Ikoko, shown in a state the caption describes as ready for burial. Its subject tags point to a geographic setting and to death and funeral customs, so the picture records a funerary moment rather than a portrait alone. Photographs from the early 1900s like this one were often made by missionaries, colonial officials, or travel photographers, and they were widely circulated as views of distant peoples. The record does not name the photographer or describe the scene in more detail, so the image is best read as a document of how one community marked a leader's death at that time, with the caption and the photographer's own framing shaping what viewers were meant to see.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Death--Funerals. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,114 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151390 |
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