Object Details
- Local Numbers
- F 2 DAN 9.1 EE 71
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 43
- Frame value is 26.
- Slide No. F 2 DAN 9.1 EE 71
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Headdresses -- headgear -- Africa
- Clothing and dress -- Africa
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Dan (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Côte d'Ivoire
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1971
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 4772
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- "The Dan (or Yakuba) are a population of farmers speaking a language derived from the Mande group and are considered Mande-sud. Empowered speech is the core of the Mande image of bards. Charles Bird notes that the musical instruments bards use and the songs they sing are considered so full of this occult energy that anyone else would be destroyed by attempting to perform them. Threatening as this power may be, it is nevertheless believed crucial to society." [McNaughton P., 1987: Nyamakalaw: the Mande bards and blacksmiths. African Art and Litterature, Word and Image, vol. 3 #3]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871013427-3
