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Igbo woman returning from farming land, Ezi Itim compound, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria

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Igbo woman returning from farming land, Ezi Itim compound, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria
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Object Details

sova.eepa.2000-007_ref802
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo70474818a-3a7f-4570-90cd-b5dccbab72af
Local Numbers
72/1959-1960 EEPA 2000-070294
General
Title source: Dr. Simon Ottenberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Photographer
Ottenberg, Simon
Collection Photographer
Ottenberg, Simon
Place
Africa
Nigeria
Topic
Agriculture
Women
Photographer
Ottenberg, Simon
Culture
Igbo (African people)
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Simon Ottenberg photographs
Extent
1 Slide (col.)
Date
1959-1960
Custodial History
Donated by Simon Ottenberg, 2000.
Archival Repository
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Identifier
EEPA.2000-007, Item EEPA 2000-007-0294
Type
Archival materials
Slides
Color slides
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
This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from September 1959 to December 1960.
Original caption reads, "Women from Ezi Item compound, Mgbom Village, carrying cassava home from farm. Photo taken from Government Secretary's house." [Ottenberg field research notes, September 1959-December 1960, Part I].
"For each village there are six land sections, one farmed each year, usually in rotation, successively going out from the settlement in one direction from it. The farmland nearest the village, called ebo, is outside of this six-block system and can be used at will. Both ebo and this distant land are also controlled by matrilineal and patrilineal descent groups and sometimes wards. The right to use land of a major patrilineage is open to any male lineage member who is an initiate of the village secret society. A man may share some of its land with his wives, giving them poorer land to plant cassava, and letting them plant vegetable crops among his yams." [Ottenberg, 1968: Double Descent in an African Society; The Afikpo Village-Group, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968].
Collection Restrictions
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Other Archival Materials
Simon Ottenberg Papers are located at the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
EEPA.2000-007_ref802
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo70474818a-3a7f-4570-90cd-b5dccbab72af
EEPA.2000-007
EEPA
Record ID
ebl-1536864686513-1536864686755-0

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