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Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
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Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

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Lettering: Dried rats and mice as medicine. A Yeruba woman at the market in Iloffa, Nigeria, selling dried rats and mice as medicine. Two antelope haunches, a native delicacy, are also seen at the back of her basket, covered all over with flies. Copyright by Kurt Lubinski; Phot. H.V. Meyerowitz. Lettering attached to label on verso. Photograph verso bears photographic studio stamp: "Copyright Kurt Lubinski [...]"

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