Simon Ottenberg photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Cultural landscapes
label: Topic
content: Vernacular architecture
label: Topic
content: Shrines
label: Topic
content: Masquerades
label: Topic
content: Marketplaces
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Masks
creator: label: Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
culture: label: Culture
content: Igbo (African people)
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content: Simon Ottenberg photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Simon Ottenberg in Southeastern Nigeria within the Afikpo Village Group, at the time a group of 22 Eastern Igbo villages (sometimes considered part of the Cross River Igbo grouping) in southeastern Nigeria, while on a pre-doctoral Social Science Research Grant from December of 1951 through March of 1953 and during field research from September of 1959 to December of 1960. Also included are photographs taken from June of 1960 to December of 1960 of Abakaliki, a town and the administrative center of the northestern Igbo people, north of Afikpo. According to Dr. Ottenberg in his publication about masked Afikpo rituals, "The Afikpo belong to an Igbo subgroup called Ada or Edda (Forde and Jones 1950, pp. 51-56), which includes the Okpaha, Edda, Amaseri, and Unwana village-groups, all of which border on the Afikpo, and the Nkporo and Adaeze, both short distances away" (Masked Rituals of Afikpo, 1975, p. 3).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1068 Slides (photographs) (color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: between 1951-1960
container: label: Container
content: Item 1068
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Simon Ottenberg, 2000.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-007
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: Images indexed by slide number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
relatedmaterial: label: Related Archival Materials note
content: Simon Ottenberg Papers are located at the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.