Jean Borgatti Collection
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- Creators:
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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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Pemberton, John, 1928-2016
- Dates:
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1982-1986
- Size:
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769 Slides (color; 35 mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-010
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of 769 35mm color slides, dates from 1982 to 1986 and documents various Agemo festivals, a performing art of the Yoruba religion. More specifically, Pemberton photographed Agemo funeral rites at the Asu Aluwa house in Olosiwonade, Ijebu, various Agemo priests and their stools, the Odun Agemo festival, Chief Sherafusi's Odun Agemo festival in Igbile, and Egungun dancing at the palace in Oru, Ijebu.
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- Creators:
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Knight, Natalie
Priebatsch, Suzanne
- Dates:
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circa 1970s-2011
bulk 1974-1978
- Size:
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1,305 Slides (color, 35 mm)
325 Negatives (photographic) (color, 35 mm)
331 Photographic prints
3 electronic_discs_dvd
19 Folders (manuscript materials)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-010
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes (1,305) 35mm color slides, (325) 35mm color negatives, (331) photographic prints, (3) DVDs and manuscript materials. The images were produced between circa 1970s and 1999 and most depict the Ndebele peoples of South Africa in their kraals (homesteads) making bricks, thatching roofs, and performing other daily activities; ar...
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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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Ofcansky, Thomas P., 1947-
- Dates:
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1678-circa 2005
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1 Booklet (sheet music)
30 Engravings
6 Photographic prints
6 Posters
1 Drawing
2 Documents
12 Maps
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection dates from 1678 to circa 2005 and consists of 58 maps, engravings, posters, original documents and photographs related to East, Central and South Africa. There is a special focus on Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Tanzania and the Sudan, and the collection's subjects include East African geography, history, political affairs and African leaders, as well as European (German, Italian, British) and American colonization, exploration and warfare in Africa.
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1999
- Size:
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355 Photographic prints (color)
365 negatives (photographic) (color)
359 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2002-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christraud M. Geary during two research trips to South Africa in 1999. The first trip was from March through April and the second trip was during July.
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Rohrmann, G. F. (George F.)
- Dates:
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1970-1975
- Size:
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129 color slides (35mm)
626 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2018-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection depicts the everyday life and architecture of Basotho, Hausa, Makonde, Matabele, Pedi, Swazi, and Xhosa peoples in Nigeria, Southern Africa, and Tanzania.
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Higbee, Edwin Converse
- Dates:
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1929
- Size:
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6 Film reels (reels (1 hr 49 min), silent, black & white, 16 mm. 2348 ft )
7 Film reels (reels (2 hr 3 min), silent, black & white, 16 mm. 2793 ft)
126 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 7 x 13 cm.)
126 Photographic prints (dupe prints (2 v.), black & white, 7 x 13 cm. )
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1989-011
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs and film taken by Edwin Converse Higbee during his trip from Capetown to Cairo in 1929 aboard the S.S. Corinthia. The trip was sponsored by the Raymond & Whitcomb Co., a travel service based in Boston, Massachusetts, and promoted as a Round Africa Cruise. Images reflect a variety of people, countryside and architecture.
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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) (color, 35 mm)
511 copy slides (color corrected, 35 mm)
- 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 South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in 1995.
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- Creators:
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Chaveas, Lucille
- Dates:
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2003
- Size:
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17 Items (photographic prints , color.)
23 Negatives (35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2013-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of 17 color photographic prints and (23) 35mm negatives which were taken in Sierra Leone in 2003, which focus on textile manufacture, specifically needlepointed carpet slippers worn by the Krio women of Freetown.