Philip M. Abram photographs
place: label: Place
content: Liberia
label: Place
content: Mali
label: Place
content: Guinea
label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire
label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Burkina Faso
label: Place
content: Africa
culture: label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Vai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Grebo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Bassa (Liberian and Sierra Leone people)
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content: Philip M. Abram photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken and postcards gathered by Philip M. Abrams during his travels through Liberia, Mali, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, 1970-1973. Activities documented in the images include a Bundu sande women's society performance with Sowei (female guardian spirit) masks in Liberia; a Dogon dama (festival) masquerade staged for tourists in Sangha, Mali; a Grebo war dance in Krutown, Monrovia, Liberia; young Vai boys during initiation into the poro male secret society; and masked Vai dancers performing on Providence Island, Monrovia.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: U.S. Foreign Service Official.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 358 Slides (photographs) (+22 postcards, color)
label: Extent
content: 10 Photographic prints ((dupe prints), color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957-1973
label: Date
content: bulk 1970-1973
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Philip M. Abrams, 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1986-002
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Slides:organized in one volume;.arranged numerically by image number.

Dupe prints:organized in one volume;arranged numerically by image number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards