Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Cross River Nta Phallic form pillar, Cross River, Nigeria
1969-06
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, "Cross River Nta Phallic form pillar. Near village of Oyengi. All 5 bear name of former village chiefs but none shows normal human features. Column decorated with chalk marks and a palm leaf Girole. Height- 59 inches".
- Collection
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
- Archival grouping
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Cross River Monoliths
- Catalog date
- 1969-06
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Houlberg, Marilyn
- Recorded subjects
- Stone carving
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (B/W, 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 2015-015-1127
Collection: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection