Album 3: Burundi
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White Fathers
place: label: Place
content: Burundi
topic: label: Topic
content: Tutsi (African people)
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content: Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Photographic Albums
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1924-1925
container: label: Container
content: Box 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-010, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 is comprised of 1 album containing 80 silver gelatin prints, taken in Burundi.  Many of these photographs consist of individual and group portraits of the family of Mwezi Gisabo and Ririkumutima, including his brothers and their wives, his sons, and his grandsons.  Also included are portraits of servants, young children, dancers, and several Tutsi and Batwa women.  Many of these individuals have shaved hairstyles and are wearing clothes constructed of ficus tree fiber, necklaces made of bone, pearls, or beads, and rosaries.  Many individuals are also depicted holding bows and lances.  There are also images of woven baskets, combs, spears, and shields.  Specific sites include the Mugera cathedral, built by the White Fathers in 1922 near the Ruvyironza river, a sawmill in the Kibira forest, and a festival in Gitega.