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Wives of Kuba King

African Art Museum

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

Wives of Nyim Mbop Mabiinc maMbeke (Bope Mabinshe) in Mushenge, Zaire, 1947.
sova.eepa.1973-001_ref535

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo71d3b97d0-fa51-4040-8f9c-f96c2eabb6e1

Local Numbers

F 3 KBA 22923 R-4 3

Place

Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)

Topic

Clothing and dress -- Africa

Photographer

Elisofon, Eliot

Culture

Kuba (African people)

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Extent

1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 5.5 cm.)

Date

1947

Archival Repository

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Identifier

EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA b/w 22923 R-4.3

Type

Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Black-and-white 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.

Bibliography

Ritual & Performance: Re-presenting African Art at teh Baltimore Musuem of Art (Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2003).

Genre/Form

Black-and-white negatives

Collection Restrictions

Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
EEPA.1973-001_ref535
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo71d3b97d0-fa51-4040-8f9c-f96c2eabb6e1
EEPA.1973-001
EEPA

Record ID

ebl-1536870822481-1536871012557-0

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