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Northern Nigeria photographs
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Dates:
[between 1905-1907]
Size:
silver gelatin (black & white, 18 x 12 cm. or smaller)
copy prints (black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1986-026
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs assembled in an album documenting the Fulbe, Tiv and Wurkun peoples of north-central Nigeria. Images include Fulbe on horseback, Tiv women and children, a Wurkun headman, and Wurkun in indigenous attire. Activities illustrated include dancing and playing musical instruments such as drums, horns with gourd resonators and string bows.

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Scott J. Parker photographs
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Dates:
between 1981-1983
Size:
8 photographic prints ((2 boxes), black & white, 11 x 14 in.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1987-008
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Scott J. Parker in Ghana, 1981-1983.

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Agbenyega Adedze photographs
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Creators:
Adedze, Agbenyega
Dates:
1989
Size:
375 slides (photographs) (includes notes. (1 volume), color)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1990-006
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Agbenyega Adedze in 1989 documenting textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo. The trip was funded by the National Museum of African Art.

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James W. Lankton photographs
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Creators:
Lankton, James W.
Dates:
1989
Size:
225 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1990-004
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by art gallery owner James W. Lankton in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to document Kuba art and culture. Images are primarily from Mushenge, the Kuba capital. Activities documented include house building, wood carving, coffee drying, embroidering, hat making, drum playing, hair styling and basket weaving. Images of objects include a loom, a mask, musical instruments, royal costumes, road signs and textiles. Architecture includes an art school; village houses; king's palace and reception area; a mission church including altar, doors and interior; market shops; and a weaver's house. Portraits include the Kuba king, the king's retainers, his sons and a weaver.

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West Africa Postcard Album
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Creators:
Southcott, W.
Dates:
between 1906-1908
Size:
1 box (+album)
128 postcards (1 volume, black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1992-004
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Postcards mailed mostly in Lagos between 1906 and 1908 by W. Southcott to Miss Eva Jones, and later, during 1907, to Mrs. W. Southcott (nee Jones) of New Brighton, Cheshire.

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C.B. MacCloskey photographs
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Creators:
MacCloskey, C.B. Captain
Dates:
1943
Size:
30 photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 5 x 7 in. or smaller.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1991-004
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Captain C.B. MacCloskey while serving as a public relations officer with Colonel A.B. McMullen at the Air Transport Command in Accra, Ghana. Images document Africans in the Akan chiefdom of Akim near Accra, Ghana, in 1943. Activities shown include dancing and drum playing, as well as the funeral of the king of Akim and funerary dances. Also included is an image of an effigy of the deceased king. People depicted include Africans in Western dress and uniforms and U.S. soldiers.

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Digitized Content Floyd Alonzo McClure Papers
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Creators:
McClure, Floyd Alonzo, 1897-1970
Dates:
circa 1916-1981
Size:
12.31 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 12x17 box) (2 16x20 boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 88-125
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of an addition to the papers of Floyd Alonzo McClure. Materials consist primarily of correspondence with his wife and family, as well as some materials concerning the school where he taught in China, and reprints of his publications. The papers also consist of assorted materials, mostly in Chinese, including scrolls ...

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Photograph of attendees after American Anthropological Association annual meeting
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Dates:
1965
Size:
1 print (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.7D
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

A photograph depicting Smithsonian personnel and others at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado, probably made in December 1965. Individuals pictured include John Lawrence Angel, Bernice Chase, Angela Margola, Donald Ortner, Miroslav Prokopec, and Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme.

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Chris Hubbard collection
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Creators:
Hubbard, Chris
Dates:
1969-1970
Size:
47 slides (color)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2012-007
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Chris Hubbard in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1969-1970, which primarily depict the funeral of Kuba Nyim Mbopey Mabiintsh ma-Kyeen.

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Beverly Hertzog Collection
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Creators:
Rosenthal, Lynn
Dates:
1975-1976
Size:
2 items (photographic prints , black and white)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2016-008
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The collection consists of two black and white photographs of Dr. Hertzog and her students in the Department of Computer Science, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, dated 1975 and 1976. Both photographs were produced by local Nigerian photographers, Sunkanmi (1975) and Bisi Photo Studio (1976).

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