View of the new town, from the abandoned Yagala old site, Yagala village, Sierra Leone
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: 2498/1978-1980
label: General
content: Title source: Dr. Simon Ottenberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
name: label: Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
label: Collection Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Sierra Leone
creator: label: Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
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content: Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples
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content: Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples / Series 1: Limba Peoples, Sierra Leone and Guinea / 1.2: Field Research, Year Two / Yagala Village, Sierra Leone
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slide (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978-1980
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Simon Ottenberg, 2000.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2005-001, Item EEPA 2005-0001-2479
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides
label: Type
content: Color slides
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, while on an Art Historical and Anthropological Field Research from October of 1978 through July of 1980.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Original title reads, "At Yagala Village old site in the hills above the present village in the valley. In the Wara Wara Yagala Chiefdom, west of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, but apparently having a somewhat similar culture. Visit with Chris DeCorse, who was in the Peace Corps and Mike and Kim Chris's helper, also Peace Corps. Chris had a B.A. in archaeology, was invetigating sites in the Limba area (not part of his job). New town of Yala from the old hill site town." [Ottenberg field research notes, Limba Slides and Photographs, October 1978-July 1980].
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: Simon Ottenberg Papers are located at the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.