Object Details
- Local Numbers
- F 2 FON 10.4 EE 71
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 32
- Frame value is 35.
- Slide No. F 2 FON 10.4 EE 71
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Benin
- Topic
- Dance
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Fon (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Benin
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1971
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 4845
- 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 dance recalls the existence in the eighteenth century of Amazons as a fighting force in Dahomey's foreign wars as well as a royal bodyguard. During his trip to Dahomey (now Benin), Elisofon visited the royal palace at the town of Abomey, in the Fon people region. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871012432-1
