Lucille Chaveas collection
odd: label: General
content: Title provided by EEPA staff.
name: label: Photographer
content: Chaveas, Lucille
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Freetown (Sierra Leone)
topic: label: Topic
content: Textile fabrics
creator: label: Photographer
content: Chaveas, Lucille
culture: label: Culture
content: Krio (African People)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lucille Chaveas and her husband, Peter R. Chaveas, lived in Sierra Leone during his appointment as American Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone (2001-2004). While there, Lucille Chaveas researched and collected textiles, ultimately donating several pieces to the National Museum of African Art and publishing two articles in Piecework Magazine, "Carpet Slippers of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa" (July/August 2007) and "Kappies: The Quilted Sunbonnets of Nineteenth-Century South Africa" (Summer 2007).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Items (photographic prints , color.)
label: Extent
content: 23 Negatives (35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003
container: label: Container
content: Binder 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Lucille Chaveas in 2013.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2013-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized by negative number. Not all prints have negatives and not all negatives have prints.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of 17 color photographic prints and (23) 35mm negatives which were taken in Sierra Leone in 2003, which focus on textile manufacture, specifically needlepointed carpet slippers worn by the Krio women of Freetown.