Portrait

This is a portrait of Madam Yatta K Saffa Wah I. The photograph was taken by the American photographer Vera Viditz-Ward in 1986, and is part of a collection of photographs of paramount chiefs taken in the same year. The photographs were first exhibited in Sierra Leone to mark the bicentenary of the founding of Freetown in 1987. They were later donated to the Sierra Leone National Museum.

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  • Type: Photographs
  • Object: Portrait
  • Materials: Paper
  • Culture Group: Mende
  • Dimensions: Unknown
  • Production Date: 1986
  • Associated Places: , Niawa Chiefdom, Senduma, Kenema Distric
  • Associated People: Vera Viditz-Ward (Photographer); Madam Yatta K Saffa Wah I (Subject)
  • Museum: Sierra Leone National Museum
  • Accession Number: SLNM.2011.013.21

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