Object Details
sova.eepa.2000-007_ref802
- 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.
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- Record ID
- ebl-1536864686513-1536864686755-0