Black and White Negatives
odd: label: General note
content: A few of the negatives are bent, torn or have suffered other damage. Many have corresponding b/w photographs and contact sheets, which were included in the collection when it was donated. A list of corresponding b/w negatives and b/w photographs is provided in the inventory (the last four digits of the 35mm b/w negative accession number is provided in brackets after the accession number of the corresponding b/w photograph).
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brinkworth, William Ian
physloc: label: Note
content: All of the negatives are located on shelves B5-6 and B5-7 in the cold vault. The unaccessioned empty negative sleeves and booklets were placed in four boxes for future reference.
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Ian Brinkworth collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Cold Vault Shelves B5-6 and B5-7 (black and white negatives)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1946-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2008-009, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Series V, the black and white negatives, contain 35mm and large format (3.5' x 2.25' and 5.5' x 3.75') black and white negatives. The negatives were originally housed in sleeves and booklets provided by Brinkworth and in many cases these sleeves included hand-written identifications. The booklets were arranged in chronological order and were numbered in that order, and the negatives were kept in the original order within the sleeves and booklets. These negatives were accessioned as "35 mm b/w negatives." The negatives that were not originally housed in booklets were grouped and accessioned according to numbers and letters written by Brinkworth on the negatives sleeves (these negatives have been labeled "35mm b/w negatives labeled by Brinkworth"). There were a small number of negatives in miscellaneous sleeves with no written identification. These were accessioned as "Miscellaneous 35mm b/w negatives." The large-format negatives are accessioned as "5.5' x 3.75' b/w negatives" and "3.5' x 2.25' b/w negatives."
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 35mm b/w negatives: EEPA 2008-009-0801 to EEPA 2008-009-4422 Large format b/w negatives: EEPA 2008-009-4423 to EEPA 2008-009-4427

The negatives depict Benin clay figures, hairstyling, the Oba's queens, Brinkworth's touring van, bronze casting and figures, tattooing, masquerades and other ceremonies, fishing, agriculture, crafts and marketplaces, dancing and musicians, personal adornment, architecture, transportation vehicles, beading and crown-making, cooking, shrines, temples, the playing field at Alaro, various art objects, Nigerian colonial soldiers, government and court processes and European domestic life.