Negatives
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Shamir, Marli
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content: Marli Shamir collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2013-009, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged into five subseries according to geographic location:

Subseries 1.1: Burkina Faso, 1969

Subseries 1.2: Côte d'Ivoire, 1966-1971

Subseries 1.3: Gabon, 1972

Subseries 1.4: Israel, 1976

Subseries 1.5: Mali, 1966-1973
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series dates from 1967 to 1969 and includes 1,817 black and white negatives.  Images were taken in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso; Abidjan, Katiola, Korhogo, Man, and Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire; Libreville, Gabon; Jerusalem, Israel; and numerous locations in Mali, including Bamako, Djenne, and Tombouctou.   Subjects depicted include agriculture, architecture, landscapes, marketplaces, masquerade and musical performances, sculptures, and textiles and the Bambara, Bella, Bozo, Dogon, Fulani, Gao, Mandingo, San, Songhai, and Tuarag peoples.  

More specifically, there are images of N'Tomo, Tyi-Wara, and Zantegeiba masquerade performances; mosques, including the Grand Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso, Grand Mosque of Djenné, Grand Mosque of Mopti, and Grand Mosque of San; exhibits in Abidjan and Jerusalem of Shamir's photographs; Nanco National Park; vegetation, including baobab trees; Niger River; Bani River; the Ayame Dam; and the Comoe River.