Query: *
Archival Materials
Philip M. Abram photographs
Dates:
1957-1973
bulk 1970-1973
bulk 1970-1973
Size:
358 Slides (photographs) (+22 postcards, color)
10 Photographic prints ((dupe prints), color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
10 Photographic prints ((dupe prints), color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1986-002
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken and postcards gathered by Philip M. Abrams during his travels through Liberia, Mali, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, 1970-1973. Activities documented in the images include a Bundu sande women's society performance with Sowei (female guardian spirit) masks in Liberia; a Dogon dama (festival) masquerade staged for tourists in Sangha, Mali; a Grebo war dance in Krutown, Monrovia, Liberia; young Vai boys during initiation into the poro male secret society; and masked Vai dancers performing on Providence Island, Monrovia.