Object Details
- Local Numbers
- C 2 EBR 13 EE 72
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- N4
- Frame value is 7.
- Slide No. C 2 EBR 13 EE 72
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Topic
- Leaders
- Regalia
- Animals in art
- Animals in art -- Buffaloes
- Animals in art -- Elephants
- Headdresses -- headgear -- Africa
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Culture
- Kyaman (African people)
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Côte d'Ivoire
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1972
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 1560
- 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 photograph depicts elaborate gold-leafed wooden tops of Ebrie (now Kyaman) linguist staff. "The range of proverbial themes depicted by linguist staffs is very great. Each of these was intended to convey some moral message to the beholder. During the colonial period the French sought to consolidate their authority over the peoples of the south-eastern region by creating district and cantonal chiefs. Though untraditional, these offices have survived, and their occupants have increasingly sought to gain status by adopting Akan-style regalia (as have the few traditional paramount chiefs in the region)." [Timothy F. Garrard, 1989: Gold of Africa, Prestel]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for National Geographic and traveled to Africa from January 19, 1972 to mid April 1972.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871013509-1
