Negatives
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Borgatti, Jean
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content: Jean Borgatti Collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3625 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
label: Extent
content: 2 Contact sheets (black and white)
label: Extent
content: 4 Notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971-circa 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-007, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Contact sheets
label: Type
content: Notebooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged chronologically
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Not all negatives have corresponding contact sheets and not all contact sheets have corresponding negatives.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes 3,555 35 mm negatives, 4 negative books, and 166 contact sheets.  Most of the images depict maquerades and festivals, including the Aimhi masquerade, Akpele masquerade, Egbemamu masquerade, Egu (Egungun) Akachi masquerade, Ekpenike masquerade, Ekuede masquerade, Erelue Masquerade, Idu masquerade, Igbagu masquerade, Igugu Festival, Ihuen Festival, Iyabana Masquerade, Obanagbedor masquerade, Obonodike masquerade, Ogabadi masquerade, Ogbemudia masquerade, Omese masquerade, Otuo masquerade, Ugwonor masquerade, Ukpokolo masquerade, and Wanyoke masquerade.  There are also images of title-taking ceremonies and shrines, including the Aziza, Ikumuku, Ituke, and Okailopokai shrines.