Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EENG-I-26, 47.
- General
- Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- Typed index card reads, "V 3 Zai. Zaire. Bunia. Copper-tailed white-nosed monkey (Cercoithecus nictitans schmidti) in captivity. 4/1970. EE. neg.no. I-26, 47." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Topic
- Animals -- Africa
- Mammals
- Captive wild animals
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
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- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Congo (Democratic Republic) / EENG / 1970
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm.)
- Date
- 1970
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EENG 08118
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Black-and-white negatives
- Negatives
- 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
- Black-and-white negatives
- Negatives
- Scope and Contents
- The photograph depicts a Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti. This guenon is known by several common names: red-tailed monkey, white spot-nosed monkey, and Schmidt's spot-nosed guenon. All together they give a pretty good description of this charming, sociable monkey. They have white noses and long red tails. Their tails help them balance as they move through the trees where they spend most of their time looking for fruits, leaves, and insects. Schmidt's spot-nosed guenons can live in large groups of up to 50 monkeys, but when things get too crowded for the amount of food available, the troop may split into smaller groups. According to Kingdon (1997) the Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti (Uganda red-tail guenon) lives north of the Congo River from the Ubangi River to Uganda and west Kenya and east of the Lualaba River to the Lukuga River. During his trip to Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Elisofon visited Bunia and its surroundings, near Lake Albert. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon traveled to Africa from March 17, 1970 to July 17, 1970.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871013228-3
