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Collection Photographer:
Borgatti, Jean  Search this
Extent:
3617 Slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Date:
1971-2003
Scope and Contents:
Borgatti's 35mm color slides form the majority of the physical collection and include images of festivals and masquerades, towns and marketplaces, shrines, houses and art details, staffs and headdresses, museums and museum pieces, title and funeral ceremonies, and portraits. Most of the images were taken in Nigeria, though some are from Ghana.
Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Collection contains images of art and museum objects and exhibitions with copyright restrictions.
Collection Citation:
Jean Borgatti Collection, EEPA 2016-007, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
EEPA.2016-007, Series 1
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Jean Borgatti Collection
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo7e5662d44-733e-4bb1-b390-ec5e2a61a69b
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-2016-007-ref1