Wilhelm Schneider photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Wilhelm, 1902-1990
place: label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: Marketplaces
label: Topic
content: Body marking -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Cultural landscapes
creator: label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Wilhelm, 1902-1990
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Wilhelm Schneider (1902-1990) to document his experiences as a missionary for the Swiss Basel Mission in Cameroon, 1937-1940. 

The photographs document the culture of the Weh people and their neighbors in the Cameroon Grassfields during the 1930s. Activities include a funeral ceremony, hair braiding, house building, bridge crossing, food preparation, drum playing, knife sharpening, cotton spinning, field work, market selling and preaching. 

Architecture depicted includes chiefs' palaces, compounds, a mission school house, shrines and villages. Portraits include chiefs, kings, members of the secret society, kweifo, with their adornments, and other people showing dress, masks, ornaments and scarification.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Wilhelm Schneider, 1902-1990, missionary; trained at the Basel Mission in Switzerland, stationed by the mission in Bali, Weh and the Fungom regions of the Cameroon Grassfields; later a pastor in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 84 Photographic prints (dupe prints (1 box), black & white, 18 x 13 cm. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 158 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 158 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (2 v.), black & white, 18 x 13 cm. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: between 1937-1940
container: label: Container
content: Item 158
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Walter Schneider, son of Wilhelm Schneider, of York, Pennsylvania, and Maria Petzold, daughter of Wilhelm Schneider, of Reutlingen, Germany, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1991-011
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: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs