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- Creators:
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Scott, Victoria, 1943-
- Dates:
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1969-1979
- Size:
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580 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1984-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Victoria Scott from 1969 to 1979 in Nigeria to document Nigerian art, in particular works at the Oshogbo school, while teaching and working as a visual artist at the Jebba Technical College. Photographs are of artists and their works. Scott used the images in her courses on Nigerian art at the college. The photographs document drawings, graphic prints, paintings and textiles of the Oshogbo school of artists. There are photographic reproductions of the following works: Elephant by Nike; Elmina Castle by Kwe Ade Odus; Free Yourself and See Yourself by Twins Seven-Seven; Mamiwata VoyiboII by Bruce Onobrakpeya; Obatala and his Wife by Joseph Olu-Billy; Ogun, God of Iron by Sam Babarinsa; Reindeer by Jimoh Buraimoh; The Secret Life of the Twins of Nigeria by Asiru Olatunde; and Yam Festival Masquerade by Adebisi Fabunmui. Also included within the collection are images of artists at work and the town in which they live. People portrayed include artist Adebisi Fabunmi; a blacksmith at work in Kaduna, Nigeria; and potters in Gahana. Images of the towns include a market in Abeokuta, Nigeria; a Portuguese fort in Cape Coast, Ghana and an Osun (deity) shrine in Oshogbo.
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Ryan, Susan P.
Ryan, Michael
- Dates:
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1976
- Size:
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38 slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1978-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Susan P. Ryan in Dakar, Senegal, in 1976.
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Wechsler, Richard, III
- Dates:
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[circa 1970]
- Size:
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54 slides (photographs) (color, mounted, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1978-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Richard Wechsler during his travels in Senegal and Gambia, circa 1970.
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- Creators:
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Yoffe, Michael
- Dates:
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1975-1978
- Size:
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162 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1979-004
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Michael L. Yoffe in Botswana from 1975 through 1978 while working as the Export Marketing Advisor for the Botswanacraft Marketing Company in Gaborone, Botswana.
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Cooper, Laurel
- Dates:
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1974
- Size:
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71 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1980-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Laurel Cooper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1974.
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Robbins, Warren
- Dates:
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1982
- Size:
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226 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1982-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Warren Robbins during a research trip to Cameroon, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana in 1982.
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- Creators:
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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[circa 1975]
- Size:
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dupe slides (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1977-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Slides collected by Lydia Puccinelli, Curator at the National Museum of African Art, from four photographers for a slide presentation in conjunction with a museum exhibition entitled, "Designs of the Ndebele: Beaded Craftwork in Africa," between 1977-1978. The photographers were Natalie Knight, owner of the Natalie Knight Gallery, in Johannesburg, South Africa; Suzanne Priebatsch, of Boston, Massachussetts; Peter Turner of Johannesburg, South Africa; H. de Lorm of Johannesburg, South Africa; and Rhoda Levinsohn of South Africa.
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Ballance, Georgette
Ballance family
- Dates:
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circa 1970
- Size:
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72 slides (photographs) (color, mounted, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1978-004
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Frank and Georgette Ballance during their travels through Tanzania, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco during the early 1970s.
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Dickerson, Amina
- Dates:
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1982
- Size:
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55 negatives (photographic) (+ contact prints, black & white)
238 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1982-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Amina Dickerson in 1982 during her travels in Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. Images are mostly of the Hausa, Yoruba and Tuareg peoples.
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- Creators:
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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between 1942-1972
- Size:
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silver gelatin (black & white, 16 x 20 in. or smaller. )
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Eliot Elisofon.