Young boy playing the kurogi, a side-blown cow horn used in calling for communal work and in marriages, Kamagbembe Village, Sierra Leone

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Young boy playing the kurogi, a side-blown cow horn used in calling for communal work and in marriages, Kamagbembe Village, Sierra Leone

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Local Numbers: 1080/1978-1980
General: Title source: Dr. Simon Ottenberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Photographer: Ottenberg, Simon
Collection Photographer: Ottenberg, Simon

Place: Africa; Sierra Leone

Topic: Musical instruments

Photographer: Ottenberg, Simon

Culture: Limba (African people)

See more items in: Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples; Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples / Series 1: Limba Peoples, Sierra Leone and Guinea / 1.1: Field Research, Year One / Kamagbembe Village, Sierra Leone

Extent: 1 Slide (col.)

Date: 1978-1980

Custodial History: Donated by Simon Ottenberg, 2000.

Archival Repository: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Identifier: EEPA.2005-001, Item EEPA 2005-0001-1058

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. Photographs by Pa Huff, Hamaidu Mansaray, and Labelle Prussin are restricted. In these cases, the photographer's permission is required for access and publication of images.

Genre/Form: Color slides

Scope and Contents: This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, while on an Art Historical and Anthropological Field Research from October of 1978 through July of 1980.; Original title reads, "At Kamagbembe Village, not far from Bafodea Town. Once a farm village it later became a permanent settlement. Cow horn used in calling for communal work and in marriages." [Ottenberg field research notes, Limba Slides and Photographs, October 1978-July 1980].

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.

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