A black and white landscape photograph showing three African women carrying vessels on their heads, probably in Southern or West Africa. The women are standing in a loose line, the one closest to the camera partially obscuring the one towards the left of the image and the third standing apart further back. Each woman holds a rounded vessel on her head (one woman using one hand, one without hands and one with both hands). Each vessel has lighter top, which may be a lid. They are dressed in plain or pattered fabric. The woman closest to the camera has bangles on both wrists. All three women are barefoot. They are stood outside in scrubland, with several trees visible in the background and what may be a path to their left. Original caption (handwritten in ink beneath): 'The Three Wise Virgins'.

The caption, which the album compiler probably intended to be humorous, may be a reference to the parable of the Ten Virgins from the Bible or possibly the Three Wise Men of the Navitity. Neither the caption nor the sequence of photographs in the album provides any further information on where exactly this photograph was taken.