Canoe with sail, Benin, ca. 1925-26.

"A dug-out under sail." Dugout canoe taking cargo across lagoon.; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Dahomey, the stronghold of the fetich" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937. His trip to West Africa when the photographs in this set were taken took place ca. 1925-1926.