Word, Shout, Song: Yoruba prince

Image: Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photo: Suzanne Raab.
August 4, 2010
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Image: Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photo: Suzanne Raab.

Yoruba prince -In Nigeria in 1951, Turner met a man he identified only as a Yoruba prince and photographed him in his stately robes. Turner’s photograph is displayed with a mannequin dressed in a similar outfit.