Norm Schrag photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Schrag, Norm (Norman G.), 1947-1988
place: label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Funerals
label: Topic
content: Burial goods
creator: label: Photographer
content: Schrag, Norm (Norman G.), 1947-1988
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Norman G. Schrag during work in the Congo in support of his dissertation on Boma and the lower Congo from 1785-1885.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Graduated with a B.A. in history in 1970 from Goshen College, Indiana; received a Ph.D. in African History in 1986 at Indiana University. A Fulbright-Hayes doctoral award funded the research for his dissertation entitled, Mboma and the Lower Zaire: A Socioeconomic Study of a Kongo trading Community, c. 1785-1885. Following his death, an abstract of his dissertation entitled, Changing Perceptions of Wealth Among the Bamaboma (Lower Zaire), edited by Phyllis Martin, was published by the African Studies Program at Indiana University (Indiana University, 1990).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 89 Photographic prints ((1 volume), black and white, 5 x 7 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1986
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Jean Lauver, sister of Norman G. Schrag, 1992.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1995-039
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs