Object Details
- Local Numbers
- F 4 TTS 72 EE 51
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 26 2028
- Frame value is 0.
- Slide No. F 4 TTS 72 EEE 51
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Rwanda
- Topic
- Clothing and dress -- Africa
- Dance
- Headdresses -- headgear -- Africa
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Tutsi (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Rwanda
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1951
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 6136
- 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 photograph depicts Ntore dancers performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon traveled to Africa from early March 1951 to July 1951.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871016211-3
