Gulla Pfeffer photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Pfeffer, Gulla, 1887-1967
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Pfeffer, Gulla, 1887-1967
abstract: label: Summary
content: The photographs document Gulla Kell Pfeffer's trip, ca. 1927, from Victoria (Cameroon) to Kano (Nigeria). She had spent time with the Zumperi, continued on through Takum and Wukari following the old trade road connecting the Grassfields with this region. From there she traveled to Pankshin, Jos, Zaria, before reaching Kano. The pictures have been captioned by Kell Pfeffer.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Gulla Kell Pfeffer, b.1887, Germany; anthropologist. She received a Doctorate in Philosophy at Berlin in 1936; traveled, in 1928, on an expedition to the Cameroons and Nigeria to study the Fulbe people, with particular emphasis on their language and literature. She became proficient in the Ful language and collected the tales told by the traditional storyteller Malum Amadu, which were later published as Amadu's Bundle. Married, in her second marriage, Alexander Kell in London, 1939. Made the documentary film, "Menschen im Busch," (camerawork done by Dr. Friederich Dalsheim); published Die weisse Mah, 1929, and, in 1936, published "Ful'be Prose and Poetry."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1,561 Photographic prints ((9 v.), black & white, 17.5 x 24 cm. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 100 Negatives (photographic) (lantern slides, black & white)
label: Extent
content: 443 Negatives (photographic) (black & white)
label: Extent
content: photographic negatives  (black & white, 35 mm.)
label: Extent
content: 12 Boxes (notebooks)
label: Extent
content: 977 Photographic prints ((dupe prints) (4 v.), black & white, 175 x 24 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 546 Photographic prints ((contact prints) (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 11 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1927
container: label: Container
content: Item 543
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
label: Container
content: Volume 3
label: Container
content: Volume 4
label: Container
content: Volume 5
label: Container
content: Volume 6
label: Container
content: Volume 7
label: Container
content: Volume 8
label: Container
content: Volume 9
label: Container
content: Volume 10
label: Container
content: Volume 11
label: Container
content: Volume 12
label: Container
content: Volume 13
label: Container
content: Volume 14
label: Container
content: Volume 15
label: Container
content: Box 5
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1991-014
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs