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Image Not Available for You might think that this is a fruit stall, but you would be wrong. This stall is far more exciting -- it is a stall where you may buy all manner of healing roots.
You might think that this is a fruit stall, but you would be wrong. This stall is far more exciting -- it is a stall where you may buy all manner of healing roots.
Image Not Available for You might think that this is a fruit stall, but you would be wrong. This stall is far more exciting -- it is a stall where you may buy all manner of healing roots.

You might think that this is a fruit stall, but you would be wrong. This stall is far more exciting -- it is a stall where you may buy all manner of healing roots.

Creator Emil Otto Hoppé (British, 1878 - 1972)
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 14.5 x 21.8 cm (5 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5664
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for If you want to cure an illness, take a pick-me-up, make a friend or an enemy… there are roots this this market which are said to do all these things.
    If you want to cure an illness, take a pick-me-up, make a friend or an enemy… there are roots this this market which are said to do all these things.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
    Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for In contrast to the hidden daggers, Hausa people can be quite servile and will squat on the ground and greet you in a rather frog-like manner.
    In contrast to the hidden daggers, Hausa people can be quite servile and will squat on the ground and greet you in a rather frog-like manner.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Nothing sinister going on here….no dope, just a flask in his pocket and for all you know that may contain coco-cola.
    Nothing sinister going on here….no dope, just a flask in his pocket and for all you know that may contain coco-cola.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    A typical store with its collection of herbs and drugs, calculated to cure and prevent every imaginable evil. There are also potions which can do all sorts of strange things to you, such as make you fall in love!
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.
    You can also buy a fine skin, if your taste in interior decoration runs that way.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
    A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Medicinal roots are sold everywhere at the market.
    Medicinal roots are sold everywhere at the market.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for One may think that think that this character is from one of the Limehouse thrillers.
    One may think that think that this character is from one of the Limehouse thrillers.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for That pleasant after-supper hour at the end of the day when a few more stitches are taken, and the head mistress of the younger girls' school continues the story where they left it last night.
    That pleasant after-supper hour at the end of the day when a few more stitches are taken, and the head mistress of the younger girls' school continues the story where they left it last night.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Choir practise in the Chapel….they all try their best, but some of them are apt to give more quantity than quality of sound.
    Choir practise in the Chapel….they all try their best, but some of them are apt to give more quantity than quality of sound.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
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