Barbara Blackmun Collection
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- Creators:
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Blackmun, Barbara Winston
- Dates:
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circa 1969-1994
- Size:
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1,469 color slides
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes 1,469 color slides (35mm) which were taken in Nigeria from circa 1964-1994, and focus on ancestral altars; artists; art objects in museums, including bronze plaques and carved ivory tusks; ceremonies and festivals, including the Igue and Ewere Festivals, and the Emobo, Otue, Olokun, title-taking, and Blackmun's initation ceremonies; and people, including Oba Erediauwa and chiefs Eribo, Ero, Esogban, Ezomo, Ohanmu and Osaigeide; and street and landscape scenes in Benin City, Ife, Lagos, Ishiago, and Mbarri, Owerri, Owo, among other locations in Nigeria.
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- Creators:
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Ottenberg, Simon
Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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between 1978-1992
- Size:
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3145 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2005-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection primarily includes photographs of Limba peoples taken by anthropologist Simon Ottenberg during field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, and Guinea, from October 1978 through July 1980. The collection also includes photographs taken while conducting field research at an Afikpo village-group, in southeastern Nigeria, from January 30, 1988 to February 5, 1988 and in 1992.
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1993
- Size:
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1 Volume (slides , color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dr. Christraud Geary during a research trip to Zimbabwe in 1993.
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- Creators:
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1995
- Size:
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511 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
511 copy slides (color corrected)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1995-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Zambia and Zimbabwe in 1995.
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- Creators:
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1993
- Size:
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251 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christraud Geary during a research trip to Senegal in 1993.
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Brill, William, 1918-2003
- Dates:
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circa 1983
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(object copy prints; black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller )
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs collected by William Brill to document his personal collection of African art objects, including masks, sculpted figures, and tools.
This collection is comprised of photographs collected by William W. Brill to document his personal collection of African art objects, which primarily contains masks, sculpted figures, and tools.
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Shamir, Marli
- Dates:
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1966-1976
- Size:
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33 negatives (photographic) (color, 35mm)
1790 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120mm)
1,519 color slides (35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2013-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Collection dates from 1966 to 1976 and includes 1,817 black and white negatives, 1,519 35mm color slides, several hundred prints, and manuscript materials. Locations include Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Israel, Mali, and Niger and depict agriculture, architecture, especially mosques, landscapes, marketplaces, masquerade and musical performances, sculptures, and textiles. Peoples depicted include the Bambara, Bella, Bozo, Dogon, Fulani, Gao, Mandingo, San, Songhai, and Tuarag peoples.
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Borgatti, Jean
- Dates:
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1971-2003
- Size:
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3617 slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
166 contact sheets ((2 binders))
3555 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
4 Notebooks ((1 box))
1 cassette tape ((2 boxes))
25 Film reels (Super 8)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Jean Borgatti's collection dates from 1971 to 2003 and was created in Nigeria and Ghana. Much of the collection documents masquerades, shrines, festivals, market scenes, and ceremonies, and includes images of Urhobo, Uzairue, Ishan (Esan), Etsako, and Otuo peoples.
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- Creators:
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1898-[ongoing]
- Size:
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61 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-014
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
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- Creators:
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Jenness, Aylette
- Dates:
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1967-1969
- Size:
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2293 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
72 contact sheets (black and white)
46 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes photographs taken by Aylette Jenness in northern Nigeria between 1967 and 1969. They document daily life in a remote part of Yauri Emerite, focusing on the townspeople of Yelwa and those in its environs.