Aylette Jenness Collection
name: label: Photographer
content: Jenness, Aylette
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Nigeria
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Vernacular architecture
label: Topic
content: Hausa (African people)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Jenness, Aylette
culture: label: Culture
content: Kamberi (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fulani
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content: Aylette Jenness Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection includes photographs taken by Aylette Jenness in northern Nigeria between 1967 and 1969. They document daily life in a remote part of Yauri Emerite, focusing on the townspeople of Yelwa and those in its environs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Author and museum exhibition planner Aylette Jenness has written numerous books, including "Who Am I? (Multicultural Celebrations)" (coauthored by Donn Moulton) (1993); "Families: A Celebration of Diversity, Commitment, and Love" (1990); "In Two Worlds: a Yu'pik Eskimo Family" (coauthored with Alice Rivers) (1989); and "Along the Niger River: An African Way of Life" (1974), among many others. Traveling with her husband, an anthropologist, Jenness lived in such varying locales as Scammon Bay, Alaska (1962-1963) and Nigeria (1967-1969). She worked for twenty-four years at the Boston Children's Museum developing exhibitions, programs, festivals, and workshops.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2293 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
label: Extent
content: 46 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 or medium format film)
label: Extent
content: 72 Contact sheets (black and white)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-1969
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Aylette Jenness, 2015.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2015-019
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Contact sheets
label: Type
content: Black-and-white negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in six series by geographic location.

Series 1: Agwana

Series 2: Borgu

Series 3: Kainji Reservoir Region

Series 4: Unidentified

Series 5: Yauri

Series 6: Yelwa
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes photographs taken by Aylette Jenness in northern Nigeria between 1967 and 1969. They document daily life in a remote part of Yauri Emerite, focusing on the townspeople of Yelwa and those in its environs.  Peoples depicted include the Fulani, Kamberi, and Hausa peoples.  Subjects include markets, the flooded Kainji Reservoir, ceremonies, fishing, and vernacular architecture.