Object Details
- Local Numbers
- L 3 ZAI 1.3.2 EE 72
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 0005
- Slide No. L 3 ZAI 1.3.2 EE 72
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Topic
- Hunting
- Armed Forces
- Animals -- Africa
- Mammals
- Domestic animals
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Congo (Democratic Republic) / EECL / Garamba Natl. Park, Congo (Democratic Republic)
- 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 10127
- 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 photographs depicts staff members at Garamba Natl. Park near Gangala Na Bodio, on patrol using domesticated elephants. Garamba is famous for the African Elephant Domestication Centre at Gangala-na-Bodio, south-west of the park. Today, four trained elephants remain. The Garamba Rehabilitation Project has caught more young elephants that are also being trained for visitor use. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignement for National Geographic Film 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-1536955032661-1536955037846-3
