Ann O'Hear Collection
name: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Nigeria
topic: label: Occupation
content: Potters
label: Topic
content: Leatherwork
label: Topic
content: Pottery
label: Topic
content: Weaving
label: Topic
content: Blacksmithing
label: Topic
content: Hides and skins
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Ann O'Hear, 2016.
creator: label: Photographer
content: O'Hear, Ann
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ann O'Hear Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Ann O'Hear of leatherworking and pottery technology in Ilorin, Nigeria, from 1980 to 2015.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ann O'Hear is a professor specializing in Nigerian material culture.  Following graduation from college, she worked as a graduate volunteer teacher in Nigeria (1965‒1967) and in 1969 received an MA in African Studies from the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. In 1976, she returned to Nigeria and worked as a lecturer at the Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin, and researched the economic history of Ilorin. Studying under Professor J. D. Fage, she received her Ph.D. in History/African Studies in 1984 from the University of Birmingham.  She left Kwara State College of Technology in 1985, and moved to America, where she became Coordinator of Intercultural Studies at Niagara University.  She also worked in publishing, including as co-editor of the African Economic History journal.  She authored the book Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors (1997), edited a new edition of Letters from Nigeria, 1899‒1900 of David Wynford Carnegie (1992), and has published numerous articles.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
label: Extent
content: 2 Digital images
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980-2015
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2016-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Digital images
label: Type
content: Color slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Images arranged in two series:

Series 1: Leatherworking in Ilorin, 1985-1989 (15 slides)

Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin, 1980-2015 (29 slides, 2 digital images)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles and notes provided by Ann O'Hear.

Slides digitized in 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Digital images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes photographs taken by Ann O'Hear of leatherworking and pottery technology in Ilorin, Nigeria, from 1980 to 2015.  

Images in Series 1 (Leatherworking in Ilorin) depict a saddle, including details of tooling, bridle, triangular decorations for horses, Alh. Imam Idiaro weaving and cutting out a template for use on saddle blankets, and a horse in ceremonial trappings waiting to welcome the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Sulu Gambari, on his return from a trip abroad.  Photographs were taken in Ilorin, including in the areas of Ile Onigaari and Balogun Alanamu.

Series 2 (Pottery Technology in Ilorin) includes images of potters, including Madam Fatimoh, constructing pots at the Ebu Dada pottery center, and in Ile Babaoye, Okelele, and Ile Mulabi, Ilorin.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Additional archival and art collections by Ann O'Hear are held at the following locations:

Ann O'Hear Collection: Research on Master Weaver Yahaya Kalu Olabintan of Ilorin. A digital collection including an introduction, a research note with bibliographical references, images with captions, and an appendix, deposited in the National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

The Dr. Ann O'Hear Archive, The Hull History Centre. An annotated collection of articles, books, interviews, research notes, correspondence, archival materials, etc., on slavery and related subjects.

The Ann O'Hear Collection, Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter. A collection of lantana beads from Ilorin (Nigeria).

"Additions to the Lovejoy-Adesiyun Collection." A digital collection including interviews, a research note, images, etc., Harriet Tubman Resource Centre, Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada.  See 
http://digital.tubmaninstitute.ca/collections/show/11. 

The O'Hear Collection of West African textiles, presented to ULITA—An Archive of International Textiles (University of Leeds). Handwoven cloths, dyed cloths, mostly Nigerian, collected by Ann and Hugh O'Hear, 1960s-1980s.