Object Details
- Local Numbers
- F 1 IRI 103 EE 59
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 58482 19
- Frame value is 24.
- Slide No. F 1 IRI 103 EE 59
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Nigeria
- Topic
- Women
- Body arts
- Clothing and dress -- Africa
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Irigwe (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1959
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 4572
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, 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
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- "The Irigwe people dance in teams or groups in which the sexes are segregated. The women may join the dance making their own circle outside that of the male dancers and performing their closed or more subdued style of dance. Bunches of leaves suspended from a waistcloth to hang over the buttocks of the women may be seen in family compounds, but women today wear blouses and wrappers at the market and in public spaces." [Harper P., 1966: The Miango Dancers. Studies in Nigerian Dance number 2. Caxton Press Limited, Ibadan]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871015557-1
