Vera Viditiz-Ward photographs
odd: label: General note
content: Title provided by EEPA staff.
name: label: Photographer
content: Viditz-Ward, Vera
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Sierra Leone
topic: label: Topic
content: Drums
label: Topic
content: Trumpets
label: Topic
content: Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
label: Topic
content: Hairdressing
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: headgear
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Jewelry
creator: label: Photographer
content: Viditz-Ward, Vera
culture: label: Culture
content: Vai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mende (African people)
label: Culture
content: Limba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kissi (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kono (Sierra Leonean people)
label: Culture
content: Temne (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kuranko (African people)
label: Culture
content: Yalunka (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection contains 48 matted black and white photographs, measuring 11 x 14 inches, taken by photographer and art professor Vera Viditz-Ward. These prints comprised the exhibition Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone, which was on display at the National Museum of African Art from November 1990 through September 1991. The images consist of portraits of paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone and include ceremonial clothes and headcovers, jewelry, handheld objects, drums, staffs and ivory trumpets. Culture groups depicted include the Yalunka, Limba, Koranko, Kono, Kissi, Mende, Krim, Vai, Lokko and Temne peoples.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Vera Viditz-Ward is a photographer and professor in the Art and Art History Department at Bloomsburg College. She received her BFA from the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, CT and her MFA in Photography from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her photographic work explores the lives and experiences of West Africans both in their own countries and their experiences as immigrants in the United States. Her photographs have been published and exhibited in numerous solo shows both nationally and internationally. Professor Viditz-Ward has also conducted research in the history of photography. She has published several articles, written a chapter in a book and frequently presents lectures on the history of Black African photography. She is the recipient of several honors and awards including two Fulbright-Hayes Research Grants and a National Education Association Research Grant. Her photographs are in numerous collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art; the United States Department of State Art in Embassies permanent collection; and the National Museum of Sierra Leone.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Photographic prints (black and white , 11 x 14 inches.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1990
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Vera Viditz-Ward, 1992.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1992-021
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
relatedmaterial: label: Related Archival Materials note
content: The Warren Robbins Library at the National Museum of African Art holds a copy of Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone, an catalog from Viditz-Ward's exhibition of the same name, which ran at the National Museum of African Art from November 1990 to September 1991.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials note
content: The Warren Robbins Library at the National Museum of African Art holds a copy of Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone, an catalog from Viditz-Ward's exhibition of the same name, which ran at the National Museum of African Art from November 1990 to September 1991.