Research
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Blackmun, Barbara Winston, 1928-2018
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content: Barbara W. Blackmun papers
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-30, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1: Research, comprises Blackmun's doctoral research on Benin carved altar tusks, as well as research files on other forms of Nigerian art. 

Subseries 1: Dissertation research on Benin altar tusks, includes  Blackmun's dissertation proposal, Volume 1 of her dissertation, and other files relating to the writing of the dissertation. There are also reports on her use of computers in the analysis of the tusks. The tusk research files contain photographs (contact sheets, negatives, prints) and often notes and correspondence and are ordered numerically by tusk number. 
These files relate to the tusk card files, which contain photographs (prints) and notes and are organized primarily by tusk number, but also by motif type. The tusk research files also contain motif drawings and analysis, and charts.

Subseries 2: Other research files, contain photographs (contact sheets, negatives, and prints; the majority of Blackmun's slides are held at the National Museum of African Art), notes, and correspondence regarding objects held at various museums and collections worldwide. Included are some tusk-related files, but the majority focus on other objects such as bronzes, terracottas, and other carved ivory items.