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Kamerun - Könige - Masken - Feste

African Art Museum

Kamerun - Könige - Masken - Feste
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Object Details

Photographer

Koloβ, Hans-Joachim

Creator

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

Collection Citation

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents

Printed text on verso reads: "Kamerun - Könige - Masken - Feste / Eine Ausstelung des Rautenstrauch-joest-Museum Köln in Verbindung mit dem Lindenmuseum Stuttgart und dem Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1980 / Auftritt einer Maskengruppe des Palastes von Mbiame (Nwerong) bei der Totenfeier zu Ehren der verstorbenen Könige von Oku / Foto: Hans-Joachim Koloβ, 13.1.1977."
Translated caption reads: "Cameroon - Kings - Masks - Party / An exhibition of Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, in conjunction with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, 1980 / performance of a mask group of the Palace of Mbiame (Nwerong) at the funeral in honor of the late King of Oku / Photo: Hans-Joachim Koloβ, 13.1.1977."
Manuscript message and address on verso.
Items EEPA CM-08-01 and CM-17-01 are duplicate postcards.
sova.eepa.1985-014_ref3578

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo73ae28eea-1268-40fd-b303-a3692b428ed4

Local Numbers

EEPA CM-08-01

General

Title source: Postcard caption.

Numbering Peculiarities Note

Verso labeled with former accession number format: A1997-07-05

See Also

Cameroon, Northwest, Mbiam (6.16667, 10.78333)

Place

Africa
Cameroon
Cameroon -- Northwest -- Mbiam

Topic

Dance
Masquerades
Masks

Photographer

Koloβ, Hans-Joachim

Creator

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

See more items in

African Postcard Collection
African Postcard Collection / Series 7: Cameroon (CM)

Extent

1 Postcard (halftone., col., 14.7 x 10.5 cm.)

Date

ca. 1980

Container

Volume 1

Archival Repository

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Identifier

EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CM 1997-007-0005

Type

Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Picture postcards

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

Picture postcards

Collection Restrictions

Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
EEPA.1985-014_ref3578
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo73ae28eea-1268-40fd-b303-a3692b428ed4
EEPA.1985-014
EEPA

Record ID

ebl-1536871081657-1536871087513-2

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