Carolyn Loring Anders film of Native Life in West Africa
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.21.1
name: label: Creator
content: Anders, Carolyn Loring
place: label: Place
content: Africa, West
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Niger River
topic: label: Topic
content: Muslims
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from te San Diego Museum of Man in 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Anders, Carolyn Loring
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (55 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1980 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1928
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Native Life in West Africa ca. 1928."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1990.21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot in the Yoruba town of Ogbomosho, Nigeria. Mrs. Anders, who worked as the supervisor of native nurses in the local hospital, filmed various aspects of daily life including farming, weaving, pottery making, and food preparation. Footage includes scenes of masked dance ceremonies featuring different types of egungun (masked dances), the local chief of the town on his throne receiving obeisance from male subjects, and hospital patients with leprosy.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Carving wooden bowls Nigeria ; Food preparation mortar and pestle Nigeria ; Carrying loads on head Nigeria ; Musical instruments stringed Nigeria ; Hospitals British Nigeria ; Political authority chiefs retainers Nigeria ; Cooking Nigeria ; Plagues locusts Nigeria ; Masks dance egungun Nigeria ; Possession religious Nigeria ; Markets Nigeria ; House construction walls roofs Nigeria ; Prayer Muslims Nigeria ; Pottery making of Nigeria ; Shrines Yoruba Nigeria ; Kneading mortar and pestle Nigeria ; Cattle Brahmin Nigeria ; Games wari Nigeria ; Baptism immersion Nigeria ; Acculturation Christianity Nigeria ; Processions dance Nigeria ; Boy Scouts Nigeria ; Nurses Nigeria ; Disease leprosy Nigeria ; Hides leopard skins political authority Nigeria

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