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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Beverly Mack photographs, EEPA 1984-002, 1979-1984
Summary
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1984-002
- Creators:
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Mack, Beverly
- Dates:
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1979-1984
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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2 Volumes725 Slides (photographs)color7 Slides (photographs)black & white
- Repository:
- Container:
- 12
Photographs taken by Beverly Mack in Sierra Leone and of the Hausa people in Kano, Nigeria. The photographs document the cultures of northern Nigeria and Sierra Leone, including the Hausa people. Locations include Fourah Bay College in Freetown and Port Loko, Sierra Leone, and Kana and Zaria, Nigeria. Africans are shown buying and selling in markets, holding an Islamic celebration at the palace in Kano and riding horses. Architecture shown includes exteriors and interiors of buildings such as houses and Islamic structures, as well as street scenes.
Arrangement note
Arrangement note
Images indexed by negative number.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught Hausa at Yale University, African history at Georgetown University and African/Afro-American literature at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. It was at Kano where she had lived for three years doing fieldwork.
Administration
Author
Paul Wood
Custodial History note
Donated by Beverly Mack, 1984.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Conditions Governing Access note
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Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Color slides | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Kano (Nigiera: Emirate) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Nigeria | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Africa | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Sierra Leone | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Hausa (African people) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
National Museum of African Art
P.O. Box 37012
MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
elisofonarchives@si.edu