Yoruba People, Architecture, and Art
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Houlberg, Marilyn
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content: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 260 Slides (photographs) (Binder 4, items 1871-2130)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1969-circa 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2005-002, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series depicts Yoruba people, architecture, carving, tattoos, and art objects in locations including Efon-Alaaye, Ikenne, Ishara, and Lagos.  Additionally, there are photos of Wole Soyinka's record launch, shrines, Odogbolu cemeteries, Akio Ijebu, weddings, and textiles from Zaire (Bakuba and Bushongo), Niger (Bororo), and the Upper Volta.  Houlberg also photographed carvers Yesufu Ejigboye, Lamidi Fakeye, and Runshewe.