David Ames photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Ames, David Watson
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Gambia
creator: label: Photographer
content: Ames, David Watson
culture: label: Culture
content: Wolof (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by David Ames of rural Wolof village life in Gambia in 1950.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anthropologist David Wason Ames (1922- ) created the collection to document his work among the Wolof people of the Gambia.  Ames, who received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University in 1953, taught at California State University at San Francisco, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin.  His research interests include acculturation in West Africa, economic anthropology, ethnography of the Hausa and Wolof peoples, and ethnomusicology.  Ames co-wrote the following book with Anthony V. King: Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1971.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 125 Slides (photographs) (color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by David Watson Ames, 1987.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-004
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 negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs taken by David Ames of rural Wolof village life in Gambia in 1950.  Activities illustrated include celebrating a wedding, planting crops, tending livestock, and weaving.  There are images of the built environment, including shelters, and textiles, including clothes and fabrics.