Dissertation research on Benin altar tusks
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content: Blackmun, Barbara Winston, 1928-2018
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content: Barbara W. Blackmun papers
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content: Barbara W. Blackmun papers / Series 1: Research
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries contains two groupings of material: dissertation, and tusk research files. the first grouping contains components of Blackmun's dissertation, "The iconography of carved altar tusks from Benin, Nigeria" as well as information about her research process. The tusk research files (arranged numerically by tusk number) contain photographs and notes about each tusk, and occasionally correspondence. Regarding photographs, Blackmun organized most of the negatives and contact sheets into the tusk files and labeled them by tusk number and repository where the tusk is held. These files relate to the tusk card files, which are organized by tusk number and motif style. Also in this grouping are Blackmun's motif and type charts and motif drawings.