Thomas Weir photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Weir, Thomas
label: Names
content: Tubman, William V.S., 1895-1971
place: label: Place
content: Monrovia (Liberia)
label: Place
content: Liberia
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Weir, Thomas
culture: label: Culture
content: Kru (African people)
label: Culture
content: Bassa (Liberian and Sierra Leone people)
label: Culture
content: Vai (African people)
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content: Thomas Weir photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Thomas Weir in Liberia to document Liberian culture, 1960-1966. The photographs document the architecture, arts, events and peoples of Liberia, particularly the Bassa, Kru and Vai. Activities documented include blacksmithing, ivory carving, the making of a dugout canoe, pottery, market vending and basket and cloth weaving. Architectural images include government ministries, hospitals, schools and numerous street scenes in Monrovia, as well as Bassa houses and villages. Art works depicted include paintings on houses and signs, as well as paintings, sculptures and textiles created as tourist art. Events documented include official government ceremonies with staged indigenous dances; rituals in villages such as young members of the female sande society returning from the initiation camp; and visits by foreign heads of state such as Queen Elizabeth II and Josip Broz Tito of Yoguslavia. Liberians portrayed include President William V.S. Tubman and the people of Monrovia and other towns.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
label: Extent
content: 2330 Slides (photographs) ((2 v.), color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-1966
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
label: Container
content: Volume 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Picture postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Picture postcards