Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Chief Alapinni touching chiefs' hands with his egungun staff
1981
Ila Orangun (Nigeria)
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.
Cataloged as “Chief Alapinni touching chiefs' hands with his egungun staff” (Slides (photographs)).
- Collection
- John Pemberton III Collection
- Archival grouping
- John Pemberton III Collection / Slides / Odun Egungun: Festival for the Ancestors / Egungun Elewe
- Catalog date
- 1981
- Recorded places
- Ila Orangun (Nigeria)
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Pemberton, John, III, 1928-2016; Pemberton, Jane G., 1931 -; Fakeye, Lamidi Olonade, 1925 - 2009
- 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.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-0886
Collection: John Pemberton III Collection