Philip L. Ravenhill photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Ravenhill, Philip L.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Mali
label: Place
content: Niger
creator: label: Photographer
content: Ravenhill, Philip L.
culture: label: Culture
content: Bamana (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
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content: Philip L. Ravenhill photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken during a research trip to Mali in 1989 to study the art and architecture of the Dogon and Bamana peoples. Accompanying Dr. Ravenhill was Stanley Staniski from Media Resources. Their work resulted in the video production entitled, Togu na and Cheko: Change and Continuity in the Art of Mali, for the National Museum of African Art.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Philip L. Ravenhill, 1945-1997, anthropologist, chief curator of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987-1997. Received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Nyack College in Nyack, N.Y., in 1968, and a master's degree in 1970 and a doctorate in 1976 in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, New York. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, Dr. Ravenhill was a senior research fellow at the International African Institute (IAI) in London and project director of the West African Museums Project (WAMP) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Dr. Ravenhill's publications include, Dreams and Reverie: Baule Images of Other-World Mates in the Twentieth Century, and The Art of the Personal Object.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes (slides , color)
label: Extent
content: 1 Boxe (dupe slides, color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1989-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Color slides
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides