Victoria Scott photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Scott, Victoria, 1943-
label: Names
content: Twins Seven Seven
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Nigeria
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Nigeria
label: Topic
content: Paintings
label: Topic
content: Textile fabrics
creator: label: Photographer
content: Scott, Victoria, 1943-
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Victoria Scott from 1969 to 1979 in Nigeria to document Nigerian art, in particular works at the Oshogbo school, while teaching and working as a visual artist at the Jebba Technical College. Photographs are of artists and their works. Scott used the images in her courses on Nigerian art at the college. The photographs document drawings, graphic prints, paintings and textiles of the Oshogbo school of artists. There are photographic reproductions of the following works: Elephant by Nike; Elmina Castle by Kwe Ade Odus; Free Yourself and See Yourself by Twins Seven-Seven; Mamiwata VoyiboII by Bruce Onobrakpeya; Obatala and his Wife by Joseph Olu-Billy; Ogun, God of Iron by Sam Babarinsa; Reindeer by Jimoh Buraimoh; The Secret Life of the Twins of Nigeria by Asiru Olatunde; and Yam Festival Masquerade by Adebisi Fabunmui. 

Also included within the collection are images of artists at work and the town in which they live. People portrayed include artist Adebisi Fabunmi; a blacksmith at work in Kaduna, Nigeria; and potters in Gahana. Images of the towns include a market in Abeokuta, Nigeria; a Portuguese fort in Cape Coast, Ghana and an Osun (deity) shrine in Oshogbo.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Victoria Scott, b.1943, artist and teacher, received a B.A. in art history from Smith College in 1965 and studies with Frank Willet and Robert Plant Armstrong.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 580 Slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-1979
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Victoria Scott, 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1984-003
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints