Afikpo Peoples, Guinea and Nigeria
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Ottenberg, Simon
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content: Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988, 1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2005-001, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged by location.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes 163 photographs taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from January 30, 1988 to February 5, 1988. The research resulted in the publication, "We Are Becoming Art Minded: Afikpo Art", (African Arts 22:4, p.58-67, p.88, 1989).  Also included are photographs taken from February-March 1988 of a memorial service for a prominent Bafodea leader. The huboga (second funeral) was conducted by Simon Ottenberg.  Additionally, 55 of the photographs were taken when Ottenberg was invited to receive a chieftaincy title at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from October 11, 1992 to October 20, 1992.