A basket of Twin Babies, Old Calabar, late 19th century

Image of a woven basket containing two sets of twin babies. There are two older children standing behind the basket and two seated in the foreground of the picture.; It was the belief in Calabar that if a woman had twins one of them had to be a devil so the twins were left in the jungle to die. Mary Slessor, the Scottish Missionary, successfully fought against the practice of killing twins at infancy and herself saved many twins from this fate.

本数据集所配图片为一只编织篮内盛放两对双胞胎婴儿，篮筐后方站有两名年长孩童，画面前景处另有两名就座的孩童。在喀拉巴尔（Calabar）地区曾存在这样的愚昧观念：当地民众认为妇女生下的双胞胎中必有一个为恶魔，因此会将双胞胎弃置于丛林中任其死亡。苏格兰传教士玛丽·斯莱瑟（Mary Slessor）成功抵制了这种杀害初生双胞胎的陋习，并亲自拯救了诸多双胞胎免于此悲惨命运。