Two amulets collected in Bafodea, Sierra Leone
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- Creators:
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Prussin, Labelle
- Dates:
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1979
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2 Sheets (59 x 40 centimeters and 33 x 22 centimeters, colored inks)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2008-18
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Two amulets (called "hatumere" by the Fulbe and "sebe" by the Mande) collected by Labelle Prussin in Bafodea, Sierra Leone in 1979. One is a copy that Labelle Prussin had made of an amulet inscribed in Arabic. The original amulet was later collected by Simon Ottenberg and is now in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art...
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- Creators:
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Viditz-Ward, Vera
- Dates:
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circa 1990
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48 photographic prints (black and white , 11 x 14 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-021
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection contains 48 matted black and white photographs, measuring 11 x 14 inches, taken by photographer and art professor Vera Viditz-Ward. These prints comprised the exhibition Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone, which was on display at the National Museum of African Art from November 1990 through September 1991. The images consist of portraits of paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone and include ceremonial clothes and headcovers, jewelry, handheld objects, drums, staffs and ivory trumpets. Culture groups depicted include the Yalunka, Limba, Koranko, Kono, Kissi, Mende, Krim, Vai, Lokko and Temne peoples.
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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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- Creators:
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DeCorse, Christopher
- Dates:
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1978-1987
- Size:
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2363 slides (photographs) ((6 v.), color)
2,363 color copy slides
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-028
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christopher DeCorse during his travels in Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire.