Frank Christol photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Christol, Frank
place: label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Christol, Frank
culture: label: Culture
content: Bamileke (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by French Missionary Frank Christol during his stay in the Cameroon Grassfields, during the 1920s. 

The photographs document the peoples of the Cameroon Grassfields, particularly the Bamileke. Activities depicted include dancing and playing musical instruments. Objects include figures, masks, textiles and vessels. There are images of chiefs' palaces and architectural details such as carved doors and house posts. Portraits, often with people in groups with objects, document dress, hairstyles, jewelry and scarification. People portrayed include carvers with their work and chiefs in their palaces.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 215 Photographic prints (dupe prints (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. )
label: Extent
content: 215 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 4 x 5 in. )
label: Extent
content: 215 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920s
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased in 1989 from George Rodriques.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1989-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints