Object Details
- Local Numbers
- J 3 LGA 17 EE 67
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 4
- Frame value is 37.
- Slide No. J 3 LGA 17 EE 67
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Topic
- Domestic scenes
- Households
- Armed Forces
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Lega (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Congo (Democratic Republic) / EECL / Shabunda, Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1967
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 8024
- 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
- "Traditionally the Lega prefer to eat roasted foods. Women are in charge of the preparation of meals. In good weather they cook in the open air in front of their living quarters; the hearth is formed by four slow-burning logs arranged in a triamgle so that they can support a pot over the fire. This informal hearth, or mutula, is of great symbolic and social value. When the weather is inclement, the women's kitchens (lusa lwa bakikulu) which intersect the long compartmentalized houses. Men eat together in the men's house; women eat with young children and occasional female guests in, or in front of, the kitchen." [Biebuyck D., 1973: Lega Culture. University of California Press]. During his trip to Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Elisofon visited the Lega people at Shabunda and its surroundings in the Maniema district. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for American Broadcasting Company and traveled to Africa from early December 1966 to early February 1967.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536955032661-1536955039112-3
