Museum Objects
Object Details
- Collection Photographer
- Blackmun, Barbara Winston, 1928-2018
- Place
- Igbo-Ukwu (Nigeria)
- Lagos (Nigeria)
- Benin
- Owo (Ondo State, Nigeria)
- Ife (Nigeria)
- Topic
- Art, African
- Culture
- Yoruba (African people)
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- Barbara Blackmun Collection
- Extent
- 747 Slides (photographs)
- Date
- 1979-1994
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.2016-012, Series 1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Collection Citation
- Barbara Blackmun Collection, EEPA 2016-012, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Arranged alphabetically by type of object.
- 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.
- Scope and Contents
- The series is comprised of images African art objects located in museums, including in the Benin Museum, Lagos Museum, Owo Museum, Jos Museum, and the University of Ife Museum, among others. The objects include altar stands, armlets, bells, bowls, boxes, bracelets, figures, Oko (flutes), ivory gongs, Ikengobos, masks, motif drawings, pendants, plaques, regalia, salt cellars, staffs, stools, and carved ivory tusks.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details. Items 1234-1256 restricted. Available to view onsite only.
- Record ID
- ebl-1542742807792-1542742807889-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0