Beverly Mack photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Mack, Beverly
place: label: Place
content: Kano (Nigiera: Emirate)
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Sierra Leone
creator: label: Photographer
content: Mack, Beverly
culture: label: Culture
content: Hausa (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Beverly Mack in Sierra Leone and of the Hausa people in Kano, Nigeria. The photographs document the cultures of northern Nigeria and Sierra Leone, including the Hausa people. Locations include Fourah Bay College in Freetown and Port Loko, Sierra Leone, and Kana and Zaria, Nigeria. Africans are shown buying and selling in markets, holding an Islamic celebration at the palace in Kano and riding horses. 

Architecture shown includes exteriors and interiors of buildings such as houses and Islamic structures, as well as street scenes.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught Hausa at Yale University, African history at Georgetown University and African/Afro-American literature at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. It was at Kano where she had lived for three years doing fieldwork.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes
label: Extent
content: 725 Slides (photographs) (color)
label: Extent
content: 7 Slides (photographs) (black & white)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1984
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Beverly Mack, 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1984-002
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
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