A print measuring 207 x 139 mm. The print is mounted on card, on the reverse of which is the carefully printed caption reading: 'Chief Olowa and other representatives from His Majesty the Awajale of Jehu at the Durbar held at Lagos on the 22nd of June 1897 on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Orange House, Lagos, West Africa'. A group photograph showing Chief Olowa and retinue gathered in the garden of Orange House, Tinubu Square, Lagos.

The annual report for 1897 includes a description of the event: 'The celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Her Majesty’s Accession was utilised by him [Governor H.E. McCallum] as the occasion for bringing together at headquarters a representative gathering of native kings and chiefs, collected from all parts of the Colony and Protectorate, that was probably unique in the history of Lagos for numbers and importance. Many distant and widely separated people met at Government House in June last, to find for the first time that they had one interest and sentiment in common - that of allegiance and loyalty to the Queen - and it cannot be doubted that such a gathering of the clans, some of them perhaps not over-fond of one another, under one standard, must have a vast and most important effect upon the Colony'.