Marilyn Heldman photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Heldman, Marilyn
place: label: Place
content: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
label: Place
content: Ife (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Kano (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Sudan
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content: Ibadan (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Eritrea
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content: Lagos (Nigeria)
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content: Tanzania
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content: Benin
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content: Somalia
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content: Egypt
topic: label: Topic
content: Ere ibeji
label: Topic
content: Art objects
label: Topic
content: Architecture
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content: Marketplaces
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content: Africa -- Ethnology
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content: Pottery
label: Topic
content: Relief (Sculpture)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Heldman, Marilyn
culture: label: Culture
content: Hausa (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fulani
label: Culture
content: Bamileke (African people)
label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Oyo (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection includes 193 slides taken by Marilyn Heldman in Ethiopia in the 1960s and 1970s.   Subjects include architecture, art objects, marketplaces, pottery, reliefs and cultures including the Bamileke, Fulani, Hausa, Oyo and Yoruba peoples.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marilyn Heldman is an Adjunct Professor of Art History at American University (Washington, D.C.).  Published in such journals as the Journal of Religion in Africa, African Arts and Northeast African Studies, Heldman has also written numerous books, notably African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia (1993) (cowritten with Stuart C. Munro-Hay).  Heldman received a post-doctorate fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete field work in Northern Ethiopia (1973-1974).  She has also held positions as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and Curatorial Associate at the Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (1966-1967).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 193 Slides (photographs) (1 Binder, color, 35 mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960s-1970s
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Marilyn Heldman, 2016.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-005
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Slides
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes 193 slides taken by Marilyn Heldman in the 1960s and 1970s.  Many of the photos were taken during fieldwork in Northern Ethiopia, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctorate fellowship (1973-1974), or while working as a Curatorial Associate at the Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (1966-1967).  Subjects include architecture, art objects, marketplaces, pottery, reliefs and cultures including the Bamileke, Fulani, Hausa, Oyo and Yoruba peoples.