Egungun Festivals
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Houlberg, Marilyn
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content: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 362 Slides (photographs) (Binder 1, items 212-570)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-circa 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2005-002, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is organized chronologically from 1969 to 1988.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The slides primarily depict Egungun ceremonial and spiritual events including masquerades, such as the Ogadimeji masquerade and the Odudua Festival, shrines, art objects, and funerals.  Photos were taken in Ilogbo, Ikenne, Ila Itasa, and Ilishan, among other locations.  Houlberg used a number of photos from this section as visual aids in her articles, "Egungun Masquerades among the Oyo Yoruba," "Egungun Masquerades of the Remo Yoruba," and "Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria."