2015.212a: An electric bass guitar used by Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool and the Gang. The bass guitar is made of light colored wood and has brass tuning pegs. It has two pickups in black. The strings are attached to an oval shaped metal tailpiece with four…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.212ab
Original caption reads, "BASUTOLAND(Afrique Du Sud) - Bénédiction du Séminaire" On verso, "MISSIONAIRES DES R R P. P. OBLATS DE MARIE-IMMACULÉE AU BASUTOLAND - Afrique du Sud. Petites Annales de Marie-Immaculée. 75, Rue de I'Assomption. - Paris.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SA-40-03
Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877–1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. Despite an…
Donor notes read: "Bakatue Ritual, Elmina; evening of June 30, 1986 and morning of July 1, 1986; bathing children with herbs. The date on the slide is AUG 86.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-0574
A color print depicting two nude female figures, one in brown and one in green. The figures appear in the center of the image in front of a large, circular yellow window. The brown figure is seated and the green figure stands next to her, helping. In the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.111.42.1
A linocut depicting two nude female figures. The figures appear in the center of the image in front of a large, circular window. One figure is seated and the other stands next to her, helping. In the foreground is a bookshelf or table, with a small potted…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.111.42.2
A baton owned by a Cab Calloway. The baton is primarily constructed from white painted wood and has a cork handle. The white painted, wooden baton rod is elongated and tapers to a thin point. Hand printed, black, cursive text near the cork grip reads [~…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.5
A baton used by Dr. Issac Ben Greggs, the Director of the Southern University - Baton Rouge marching band nicknamed "the Human Jukebox." The baton has a white plastic stick and a varnished, light brown wooden handle that is smoothly rounded at its base.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.21.4
A first edition of the novel Batouala by René Maran. The green hardcover book has gold lettering [BATOUALA / by / RENÉ / MARAN] in the top right corner. The interior of the book contains 207 pages of text. The back interior page has an inscription, by hand…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.65
Photograph by Walker Evans in 1935 of two Baule bobbins displayed in an exhibit of the same year entitled 'African Negro Art' in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Original catalog caption reads, "Two bobbins, Ivory Coast, Baule, Ivory Coast. Baule.…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-010, Item EEPA 1985-100129
Image used in the video production entitled,"Patterns of Life: West-African Strip Weaving Traditions," produced by Caribiner, Inc. under contract for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. Image taken by Gavin Ashworth, 1987.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1991-005, Item EEPA 1991-050020
Image used in the video production entitled,"Patterns of Life: West-African Strip Weaving Traditions," produced by Caribiner, Inc. under contract for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. Image taken by Gavin Ashworth, 1987.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1991-005, Item EEPA 1991-051706
Image used in the video production entitled,"Patterns of Life: West-African Strip Weaving Traditions," produced by Caribiner, Inc. under contract for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. Image taken by Gavin Ashworth, 1987.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1991-005, Item EEPA 1991-050189
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