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Woman putting cotton in sack strung around neck, Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “Woman putting cotton in sack strung around neck, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0389
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Woman's black lace fan owned by members of the Ellis family

late 19th-early 20th century

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A black lace and sequin fan with eighteen (18) black flat wooden ribs with a flat verso and carved or pressed designs on the front attached by black mesh leaves in an accordion fold between two decoratively carved guards that are flat on the verso and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.42.4
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Woman sitting next to deceased, Nigeria

1999-06-07

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Original text on slide reads, "Woman sitting next to deceased".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-0344
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Woman sitting next to large wooden doors, Ikenne, Nigeria

1973-11-01

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Original text on slide reads, "Woman sitting next to large wooden doors holding packet. Market Day. Thursday".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1346
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Woman standing next to glass bottles, Ikenne, Nigeria

1988-07

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Original text on slide reads, "Woman standing next to glass bottles".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1562
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[Woman tending a fire(?) as seated boy looks on]

[ca. 1915]

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Manuscript message, address, and postmarks on verso.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA LY 2013-001-0451
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Woman through the church window, Lalibela, Ethiopia

2010-09-27

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Original Carousel 22, slide 1.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-2676
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Woman Walking by Coptic Church

undated

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EEPA 2007-003-2539.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.2007-003_ref99
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Woman wearing a kanga, Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Woman wearing a kanga, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0594
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Woman wearing adire eleko iro cloth wrapper, Ile Oloponda

1982

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"Woman wearing an àdìre-eleko iro, stenciled adire wrapper, Obala's compound, Ila Orangun." [Abiodun R. Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art. Cambridge University Press; 2014. Figure 84, pp. 172] Title is provided by EEPA staff based…

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-3326
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Woman wearing animal hides standing outside of home, Kalahari Desert, Botswana

1947

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Cataloged as “Woman wearing animal hides standing outside of home, Kalahari Desert, Botswana” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-068096
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Woman wearing cloth with Cadillac pattern, Nigeria

Date not recorded

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Original text on slide reads, "Woman wearing cloth with Cadillac pattern".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-0338
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[Woman wearing kanga carrying baby in sling], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Woman wearing kanga carrying baby in sling], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0602
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[Woman wearing kanga carrying child], Tanzania

1966-10

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Cataloged as “[Woman wearing kanga carrying child], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0205
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[Woman wearing kanga over western clothes holding child], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Woman wearing kanga over western clothes holding child], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0261
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[Woman wearing kanga], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Woman wearing kanga], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0381
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[Woman wearing printed cotton kanga], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Woman wearing printed cotton kanga], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0569
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Woman wearing wedding head dress, Natitingou, Benin

2004 November 15

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Woman wearing wedding head dress. Original Carousel number, 3, slide number, 105.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0369
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[Woman with baby on back picking cotton], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Woman with baby on back picking cotton], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0236
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Woman with child, modeling strip cloth

1987

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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 1991-050195
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Photographs and Still Images

Woman with Tambourine

1995

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A black-and-white photograph by Kenneth Royster of a woman with tambourine. There is a woman on the right side of the image, mostly out of frame. The side of her torso and her hands are visible. She is holding a tambourine in her right hand and hitting the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.41.11
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Woman with wedding head dress and child, Natitingou, Benin

2004 November 15

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Woman with wedding head dress and child. Husbands make head dress for future wife. Original Carousel number, 3, slide number, 107.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0371
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Woman working outside at Mrs. Shiba's home, a few miles northwest of Luyengo, Swaziland

1973-1975

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Cataloged as “Woman working outside at Mrs. Shiba's home, a few miles northwest of Luyengo, Swaziland” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2018-003, Item EEPA 2018-003-0429
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Women and children

[ca. 1965]

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Cataloged as “Women and children” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1999-007_ref514
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