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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Agbenyega Adedze photographs, EEPA 1990-006, 1989
Summary
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1990-006
- Creators:
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Adedze, Agbenyega
- Dates:
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1989
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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375 Slides (photographs)includes notes. (1 volume)color
- Repository:
- Container:
- 1
Photographs taken by Agbenyega Adedze in 1989 documenting textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo. The trip was funded by the National Museum of African Art.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Photographs were taken by Agbenyega Adedze during a Smithsonian-funded trip in 1989. They document textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo. Images of a cloth market in Agbozume, Ghana, show activities such as buying and selling thread and all stages of weaving on a narrow strip loom including laying the warp, sewing strips together on a sewing machine, and assembling the finished garment.
Objects depicted include beaters, cloth such as batakali, dyed thread samples, heddle straps, iron pegs, loom foot pedals, reels, shuttles, shuttle bobbins, tool boxes, and weights. People portrayed include children weaving, cloth sellers, a family of dryers, and weavers. There are also images of cloth stalls in a market and storefronts. Festival images, taken in Notse, Togo, show people dressed in Ewe strip-woven cloth.
Arrangement note
Arrangement note
Images indexed by negative number.
Administration
Author
Paul Wood
Custodial History note
Donated by Agbenyega Adedze, 1990.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
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Conditions Governing Access note
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Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Ewe (African people) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Color slides | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Togo | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Ghana | Geographic | 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
