African Hairstyles
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Houlberg, Marilyn
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content: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 212 Slides (photographs) (Binder 1, items 1-211)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1973-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2005-002, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series primarily contains slides of Yoruba women and girls' hairstyles.  There are images of people in the act of hairstyling, illustrations and advertisements depicting hairstyles and barborshops, as well as some photos of African Americans modeling elaborate hair styles.  Houlberg documented hair preparations for Balufon, the All Africa Games, among other events, and most of the photos were taken in Ikenne, Ibadan, and Ilishan.  Some of the photos are by Mark Schultz and Cynthia Ivory.  Houlberg used a number of photos from this section in her article, "Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstlyes in Southwestern Nigeria."