Roy Sieber photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Sieber, Roy, 1923-2001
label: Names
content: Adamson, Glenn
place: label: Place
content: Mali
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Benin
label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Ghana
topic: label: Topic
content: Textile fabrics
label: Topic
content: Dyes and dyeing
creator: label: Photographer
content: Sieber, Roy, 1923-2001
culture: label: Culture
content: Zulu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Hausa (African people)
label: Culture
content: Asante (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kuba (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Roy Sieber. Images of African textile and the dyeing and weaving processes. Objects depicted include Asante Kente cloth, Hausa embroidered pants, Jukun tie-dye waist cloth, a Kuba hat, Yoruba indigo dye and a Zulu cloak, as well as akwete cloth from Nigeria, an appliqué dress from Cameroon, an appliqué robe from Ghana, cloth from Dahomey (now Benin) and dye pots from Ede. People portrayed include a Dogon dancer, Kajiado warriors with spears and shields, a weaver making cloth, and women dyeing cloth with indigo.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Early American historian of African art Roy Sieber (1923-2001) is considered the founder of the discipline of African art history in the United States.  He graduated from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1949, earned his M.A. at the University of Iowa (1951) and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University (1951), where he taught art history from 1950 to 1962.  He joined Indiana University as an associate professor in 1962, one of the original scholars in the University's nascent African Studies Program as the Rudy Professor of Fine Arts.  Sieber worked as the Associate Director for Collections and Research at the National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution) from 1983 to 1993, where he was responsible for evaluating collection research and developing acquisition standards. Sieber received the first Leadership Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association in 1986.  

Througout his career Sieber produced significant publications and served as lecturer and visiting professor at several universities in Africa as well as the United States.  He was a member of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Africa between 1963 and 1971 and later the African Studies Association and the primitive art advisory committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 65 Slides (photographs) ((dupes), color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1965
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Roy Sieber, 1985.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-011
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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