James Lee photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Lee, James
place: label: Place
content: Kenya
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content: Côte d'Ivoire
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content: Cameroon
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content: Ghana
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content: Africa
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content: Zimbabwe
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content: Tanzania
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content: Burkina Faso
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content: Mali
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content: Nigeria
creator: label: Photographer
content: Lee, James
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by James Lee in Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Zimbabwe between 1963 and 1970. The images reflect a variety of themes.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 323 Slides (photographs) (1 volume, color, 35 mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-1970
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by James Lee, 1985.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Slides (photographs)
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content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs taken by James Lee in Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Zimbabwe between 1963 and 1970. The photographs document cultures, landscapes, and peoples of the African countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and Zambia.  Nigerian cities and villages illustrated include Asaba, Calabar, Enugu, Funtua, Ibadan, Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Okigwi, Onitsha, Opobo, Oshogbo, Uyo, Wudil, and Zaria.  People portrayed include the emir of Katsina, leopard society members at Uyo, and a weaver, Activities documented include a Bobo masquerade in Burkina Faso; a celebration at the court of the emir of Kano; a contest of traditional dance groups in Enugu stadium, Nigeria; and a Mossi dance in Burkina Faso.  Architectural images show government colleges and schools, a house under construction outside Uyo, a mosque in Kano, a painted house in Wudil, ruins of a wall at Zaria, and a shrine to a river god in Oshogbo.  Art works reproduced include funerary sculpture and sculptures made of concrete in southeastern Nigeria, mostly at Oshogbo.  Images of the natural environment show cattle, egrets, the Niger river crossing in the town of Jebba, the riverside at Opobo, and Victoria Falls.