William F. Wheeler photographs of Africa and Efe people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2005-19, NAA ACC 2010-21
name: label: Creator
content: Wheeler, William F. (William Felix), 1943-2008
place: label: Place
content: Ituri Forest (Congo)
label: Place
content: Algeria
label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: Niger
label: Place
content: Mali
topic: label: Topic
content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: Camps
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies
creator: label: Creator
content: Wheeler, William F. (William Felix), 1943-2008
culture: label: Culture
content: Maasai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mbuti (African people)
label: Culture
content: Tuaregs
label: Culture
content: Pygmies
label: Culture
content: Efe (African people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: William F. Wheeler (1943-2008) was born in Blackville, South Carolina, and earned a medical degree from Duke University and a specialty degree in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General in Boston. In 1978, after years of practicing medicine, he began traveling Africa by car, making over twenty-four trips during the next three decades. To gain a more intimate experience, he returned to explore the most remote places on foot. His detailed safari journals, written in the style of 19th century explorers, describe camel journeys in the Sahara, foot safaris with Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania, and hundreds of miles of treks with Efe through the rainforest of the Ituri river basin, a tributary of the Congo River. Wheeler's collection of artifacts and photographs formed the basis of a 2004 exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Man.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5,200 Color slides (circa)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986-1998
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: 5,245 slides of Efe Pygmies donated by William F. Wheeler in 2005. The rest of the slides, mostly other parts of Africa, donated by his daughters Emily Cardey and Amy Kocourek in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2005-19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates for Efe Pygmy photos are available.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in William F. Wheeler, Efe Pygmies: Archers of the African Rain Forest, New York : Rizzoli, 2000.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs)
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by William F. Wheeler during his expeditions to Africa in July 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1998, mostly documenting the Efe of Akokora in the Ituri forest. Photographs relating to the Efe people of Akokora in the Ituri forest include images of Efe people, camps, musical instruments, dances, archery and poison arrows, hunting, barkcloth making and use, body marking, food, animals and plants of the rainforest, forest treks, villages (including Anduli, Dui, and Akokora). Other photographs include images of ceremonies (including an Olngesherr ceremony in the Loita Hills), Mbuti at Epulu, a Masai village in Kenya, William Wheeler's wedding to Linda Penn in a Masai village (1987), Berber nomads and scenic views in Algeria, markets and Tuaregs during a camel trip through Niger, and aerial views.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 2005-19 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 2010-21. These photographs were also made by William F. Wheeler in Africa and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the William F. Wheeler Efe Pgymy Papers, 1999-2004 (MS 2005-14).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Wheeler held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 2036145, 2034089, and 2033754.