Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples
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Ottenberg, Simon
Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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between 1978-1992
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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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Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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between 1951-1960
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1068 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Simon Ottenberg in Southeastern Nigeria within the Afikpo Village Group, at the time a group of 22 Eastern Igbo villages (sometimes considered part of the Cross River Igbo grouping) in southeastern Nigeria, while on a pre-doctoral Social Science Research Grant from December of 1951 through March of 1953 and during field research from September of 1959 to December of 1960. Also included are photographs taken from June of 1960 to December of 1960 of Abakaliki, a town and the administrative center of the northestern Igbo people, north of Afikpo. According to Dr. Ottenberg in his publication about masked Afikpo rituals, "The Afikpo belong to an Igbo subgroup called Ada or Edda (Forde and Jones 1950, pp. 51-56), which includes the Okpaha, Edda, Amaseri, and Unwana village-groups, all of which border on the Afikpo, and the Nkporo and Adaeze, both short distances away" (Masked Rituals of Afikpo, 1975, p. 3).
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- Dates:
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1993-1996
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video recordings (sd., col.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1996-020
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Video recorded interviews conducted by Dr. Simon Ottenberg of Nigeria artists in Nigeria and in the United States of America, 1994-1996.
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- Dates:
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1993-1996
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9 video recordings (sd., color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Video recorded interviews conducted by Dr. Simon Ottenberg with Nigeria artists in Nigeria and in the United States of America, 1994-1996.
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- Dates:
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2007-2013
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11 electronic discs (cd) (1 box)
4 boxes (correspondence and research)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-009
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Research collection of materials related to Freetown artist Miranda Olayinka Burney Nicol (1927-1996) created between 2007 and 2013. The collection includes 4 boxes of correspondence and research and 1 box containing 11 electronic discs (CD-ROMS) primarily of images of Oyalinka's artwork. This research was compiled during the preparation of Otten...
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1993-1994
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13 video recordings ((Hi8) , sd., color, 8 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-011
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Videorecorded interviews and demonstrations obtained by Dr. Simon Ottenberg of Nigeria artists in Nigeria and in the United States of America, from April 1994 to June 1996.
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- Creators:
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Ottenberg, Phoebe
- Dates:
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1952-1960
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2 Items (linear inches. )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2010-18
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Consists of the research notes of Dr. Phoebe Ottenberg Miller, relating to her field work among the Igbo in Afikpo, Nigeria, circa 1952-1960.
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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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National Museum of African Art. Department of Education
- Dates:
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1987-1999
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-034
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of cassette audiotapes and U-matic videotape recordings of lectures presented by staff members of the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), as well as guest lecturers, at docent training classes. The lectures provide information on the Museum's permanent and temporary collections, and the history of African art a...
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National Museum of African Art. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1979-2010
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-331
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence created or maintained by Johnnetta B. Cole, Director 2009- . The records consist of correspondence with museums, educational institutions, professional societies, corporations, foundations, and individuals in the field of African art and related studies. Materials also include clippings, brochures, ...