Object Details
Photographer
Elisofon, Eliot
Collection Photographer
Elisofon, Eliot
Collection Citation
Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents
"A Madi mother with her child at a camp on the Albert Nile. The woven basket in which the child is resting can be strapped to the mother's back for easy carrying when they are traveling. The young girl on the right is wearing a simple garment of manioc leaves suspended from her waist in front and back." [Eliot elisofon, Laurens Van Der Post, 1967: The Nile, Viking Press]. During his trip to Sudan, Elisofon visited the Madi people living mainly in northwestern Uganda and southern Sudan. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from January 8, 1947 to end of June 1947.
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Local Numbers
Negative number Nile 1947 R-6, 8.
General
Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
Local Note
Typed index card reads, "A 3 Mdi. Madi. Sudan. Woman with child at camp on the Albert Nile. 4/1947. EE. neg.no. Nile 1947 R-6, 8." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.
Place
Africa
Uganda
Sudan
Topic
Portraits
Children
Clothing and dress -- Africa
Body marking -- Africa
Body arts
Photographer
Elisofon, Eliot
Culture
Lugbara (African people)
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Extent
1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4inches.)
Date
1947
Archival Repository
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Identifier
EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EENG 00330
Type
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Black-and-white negatives
Negatives
Collection Rights
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. Where noted, some images remain under the copyright of Life/Shutterstock. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Genre/Form
Black-and-white negatives
Negatives
Collection Restrictions
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
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Large EAD
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EEPA.1973-001
EEPA
Record ID
ebl-1590719319601-1590719494042-0