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Art Objects, Domestic Scenes, Scenery, Festivals, Shrines, Hairstyles, and Portraits
circa 1967-circa 1989
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.
Locations depicted include Itasa, Oshogbo, Ilishan, Ikenne, Ilara, Shagamu, Ila-Orangun, New York, Dublin, Ireland, Hamburg, Germany, Lagos, Iperu, and the Sahara. Primarily Yoruba and Igbo people are pictured, but there are also photos of Tuareg people.
- Collection
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
- Archival grouping
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Series 12: Yoruba, Miscellaneous
- Catalog date
- circa 1967-circa 1989
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Houlberg, Marilyn
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Sources & collection details
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art — original record ↗
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.2005-002_ref528
Collection: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
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