Ivan Livingstone photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Livingstone, Ivan
label: Names
content: Celestial Church of Christ
place: label: Place
content: Porto-Novo (Benin)
label: Place
content: Ife (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Togo
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Dahomey
label: Place
content: Benin
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Marketplaces
label: Topic
content: Ramadan
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Decoration and ornament
label: Topic
content: Egúngún (Cult)
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Funeral rites and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Ifa (Religion)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Livingstone, Ivan
culture: label: Culture
content: Fon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fula (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dan (African people)
label: Culture
content: Oyo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Ifè (African people)
label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Somba (African people)
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content: Ivan Livingstone photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection contains 527 color 35mm slides taken by Ivan Livingstone in West Africa (primarily the Republic of Benin but also in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo) circa 1972-1973. Images depict market scenes, Egúngún and Ifa ceremonies, religious ceremonies of the Celestial Church of Christ, funeral processions, decoration and ornament, clothing and dress, and musicians. There are also several images of the palace of the Oni of Ife. Culture groups represented in the collection include the Yoruba, Ifè, Oyo, Somba, Fon,Dan and Fula peoples.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Ivan Livingstone is an Afro-Canadian scholar and photographer of Jamaican and Guianese descent. He was raised in Verdun, a working-class suburb of Montreal. Livingstone has taught at McGill University in Montreal, Laval University in Quebec City, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Benin.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 527 Slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972-1973
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Ivan Livingstone, 1996.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1996-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Color slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged by original photographer's series and classified by EEPA subject headings.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides