In Kenya's Rift Valley, an attentive audience watches two Maasai elders playing mbao , Kenya, 1966
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA KE-21-01
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Numbering Peculiarities Note
- Verso labeled with former accession number format: 1995-26-24.
- Creator
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See Also
- Kenya, Rift Valley Province (0.5, 36)
- Interactive maps
- Place
- Africa
- Kenya
- Kenya, -- Rift Valley Province
- Topic
- Recreation -- Africa
- Games -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Provenance
- Tina Loughran; Donation; FY 1995; EEPA 1995-026
- Creator
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Maasai (African people)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 23: Kenya (KE)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (halftone., col., 15.3 x 10 cm.)
- Date
- circa 1983
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA KE 1995-026-0024
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, 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
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Printed caption on verso reads: "In Kenya's Rift Valley, an attentive audience watches two Maasai elders playing mbao. Mbao, the swahili word for 'board,' is the East African version of a game played throughout Africa. Two opposing players or teams move their counters around a twelve to thirty-two hole board, trying to capture their opponent's 'men.' It is a fast moving game in which skill and strategy, not luck, determine the winner. / Rift Valley, Kenya, 1966."
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "National Museum of African Art / © Smithsonian Institution, 1983 / Photograph by Eliot Elisofon / 578823 / Printed by Baum Printing Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. U.S.A."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088095-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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