Nigerian traditional industry. On the left a woman is panning for iron, and on the right a man dyes cloth at a traditional dye pit. Open air dye pits

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Nigerian traditional industry. On the left a woman is panning for iron, and on the right a man dyes cloth at a traditional dye pit. Open air dye pits such as this have been used for centuries in Nigeria. This photograph was published in 1911. This photograph comes from Nigeria, its peoples and its problems by Edmund Dene.

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Photo credit: © SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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