Alixa Naff photographs of Europe, the Middle East and the Mediterranean and audio tapes on Mediterranean folklore
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2011-02
name: label: Creator
content: Naff, Alixa, 1919-2013
place: label: Place
content: Lebanon
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content: Turkey
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content: Egypt
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content: Greece
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content: Syria
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content: Spain
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content: England
topic: label: Topic
content: Art
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content: Architecture
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Folklore
creator: label: Creator
content: Naff, Alixa, 1919-2013
culture: label: Culture
content: Arabs
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Alixa Naff began collecting Arab folklore in 1962 when she visited 16 communities in the U.S. and eastern Canada. After earning her MA and PhD, she taught at California State University, Chico, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Naff left academia in 1977 to research and collect material relating to the Arab immigrant experience (particularly Syrian and Lebanese immigrants from the turn of the 20th century).  In 1984, with prompting from Richard Ahlborn, curator of the Smithsonian Institution Community Life Division (now the Department of Cultural Affairs), Naff donated her collection of Arab immigrant material.  Naff eventually became the archivist of the "Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection", named in honor of her parents, at National Museum of American History Archives Center.
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content: 28 Color prints
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content: 13 Sound tapes (open reel)
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content: 1,500 Slides (circa 1500 black & white and color slides)
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content: 300 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
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content: 1 Boxe (35 mm acetate negatives)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1957-1972
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Alixa Naff, 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2011-02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Color prints
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content: Sound tapes
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content: Slides
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content: Prints
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content: Photographs
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content: Audiotapes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Cassette tape copies were made for most of the open reel audio tapes.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
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content: Audiotapes
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Preliminary inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs taken by Alixa Naff between 1957 and the early 1970s on trips to England, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, and open reel audio tapes of interviews regarding Syrian-Lebanese folklore that Naff conducted in 1965 in the Lebanese Village of Rashaya al-Wadi.  Comprising this collection are images of cities, structures, art, people, activities, and scenery, and two folders of Dr. Naff's notes relating to the recorded interviews.  Photographic formats include 35mm slides, black and white prints, and 35mm negatives.  Naff annotated many of the slide mounts or verso of prints with descriptions and identifications.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: One reel of 8mm film of Zahle, Lebanon was donated with this collection. It has been relocated to the Human Studies Film Archives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History holds the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection and several other Naff accessions.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds a 1950 map of Cairo donated by Alixa Naff (MS 7449).