Leon de Sousberghe photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Sousberghe, Léon de
place: label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Sousberghe, Léon de
culture: label: Culture
content: Pende (African people)
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content: Leon de Sousberghe photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken among the Pende peoples in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the years 1955-1957. Publications used for identifying and describing the collection photographs include L'Art Pende (Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 1958) and Les danses rituelles Mungonge et Kelas des Bapende (Academie royale des sciences coloniales, 1956), both by Léon de Sousberghe; Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende by Z.S. Strother (The University of Chicago Press, 1998); and, from Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals Mary H. Nooter, ed. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1993), Z.S. Strother's article, The Physical and Social Boundaries of Secrecy: Eastern Pende Constuctions of Secrecy, pp. 157-178.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 212 Slides (photographs) (color)
label: Extent
content: 1 Map (black & white, 50 x 70 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Map (color, 40 x 53 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1957
container: label: Container
content: Item 212
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Leon de Sousberghe, 1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1999-010
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Maps
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.

organized in slide filing cabinet;arranged numerically by image number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs