Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Egungan masquerade ceremony, Nigeria
1982-03-27
African history · place not specified
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Original text on slide reads, "Egungan masquerade ceremony. Ogboni and Modern Bread Ogboni can only be worn by a member of Egungun who is Ogboni".
- Collection
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
- Archival grouping
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Ogboni clothes and Itagbe cloth
- Catalog date
- 1982-03-27
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Houlberg, Marilyn
- Recorded subjects
- Masquerades
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (Color, 35 mm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-0089
Collection: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection