The collection consists of 38 color transparencies, 648 color slides and 10 black-and-white photographic prints taken by Lynn McLaren Demarest while on assignment for various news outlets in the 1950s and 1960s. A majority of the slides and transparencies were taken in East Africa and document indigenous peoples, agriculture (cotton in particular), health and nutrition education, UNICEF activities, architecture, natural landscapes, animals, fishers, coffee plantations and the sisal industry. Locations include Mobassa, Lamu Island, Zanzibar, Dar es Saalam, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimajaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania). The black-and-white photographs depict East African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, and prominent international visitors to the region, including Robert Kennedy. A small number of slides and transparencies were taken in India.
Arrangement note:
Arrangement reflects the original order established by the photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
Lynn McLaren (1922-2008) was a professional photojournalist who worked on assignment for National Geographic, Life, Newsweek and Business Week since the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Society of Women Geographers, McLaren lived and traveled extensively around the world, photographing peoples and places in Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), India, Nepal, Spain, Germany and the United States. McLaren was also the author of five books, including Berlin and the Berliners and The Village: The People (India), all of which are richly illustrated with her photographs. She recently had a major retrospective of her photography, Fifty Years of Photographs from Around the World, at the Marion Art Center in Marion, Massachusetts in May-June 2007.
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Image of a Masai man, made at Ngorongoro Crater in the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania.
Biographical/Historical note:
Dr. Michael Ernest Sabbagh (1934-1977) was an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Texas, Austin. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand. His scholarly interests included climatology, physical geography, Africa, and statistical methods in geography.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 89-42
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 89-42, Michael Sabbagh photograph of Masai Warrior, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
Biographical/Historical note:
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.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2005-19, NAA ACC 2010-21
Location of Other Archival Materials:
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.
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the William F. Wheeler Efe Pgymy Papers, 1999-2004 (MS 2005-14).
Artifacts collected by Wheeler held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 2036145, 2034089, and 2033754.
Text on recto reads: "Masai. Mombasa, B. E. Africa. 8 Anderson & Mayer, Proprietors, Mombasa. Young, Photo."
Additional text on verso reads: "Union postale universelle. Lichtdruck C. Ledermann Jr., Wien I., Fleischmarkt 12."
Manuscript address and postmarked postage stamp on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-05
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Image indexed by catalogue number and subjects.
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Text on recto reads: "East African Types - Masai Women. 181."
Additional text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO - Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-06
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Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by catalogue number or subjects.
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Text on recto reads: "Masai. Mombasa, B. E. Africa. 10 Anderson & Mayer, Proprietors, Mombasa. Young, Photo."
Additional text on verso reads: "Union postale universelle. Lichtdruck C. Ledermann Jr., Wien I., Fleischmarkt 12."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-07
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Text on recto reads: "Masai. Young, Photo., Mombasa. - Copyright."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-10
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Text on recto reads: "Masai. British East Africa. Photo : Baron Lambert."
Additional text on verso reads: "The Standard P. & P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa, B. E. Africa."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-11
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "Massâi. Deutsch-Ost-Africa. No.169, Kunstverlag C. Vincenti, Dar-es-Salaam, D.-O.-Afrika. Ges. geschützt."
Translated postcard caption reads, "German East Africa. Maasai."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-12
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "East African Types - Masai Women. 181."
Additional text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO - Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-21
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional Text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-22
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "East African Types - Masai Warriors- 178."
Additional text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO - Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-31
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "In Kenya's Rift Valley, an attentive audience watches two Maasai elders playing mbao. Mbao, the swahili word for 'board,' is the East African version of a game played throughout Africa. Two opposing players or teams move their counters around a twelve to thirty-two hole board, trying to capture their opponent's 'men.' It is a fast moving game in which skill and strategy, not luck, determine the winner. / Rift Valley, Kenya, 1966."
Verso labeled with former accession number format: 1995-26-24.
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Verso labeled with former accession number format: 1995-26-25.
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Verso labeled with former accession number format: 1995-38-50.
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Handwritten caption on recto reads: "Massai Women - German E. A.."
Additional text on verso reads: "Union postale universelle. Transvaal."
Ms. on recto and verso. Postmarks on verso
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-01
EEPA KE 1995-23-26
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Keekorok, Kenya; Columbus sailed one way...Vasco da Gama another, discovering Kenya in 1498. For the next 465 years, its people lived under foreign flags. Today, the Kenyan shield-and-spears flies at the United Nations Plaza, the last of the great African game herds frolic in Kenyan national parks, and the Masai, as famous for their good looks as for their hunting prowess, consult physicians who often turn to Terramycin® (oxytetracycline) - found wherever medicine is practiced."
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Keekorok, Kenya; Columbus sailed one way...Vasco da Gama another, discovering Kenya in 1498. For the next 465 years, its people lived under foreign flags. Today, the Kenyan shield-and-spears flies at the United Nations Plaza, the last of the great African game herds frolic in Kenyan national parks, and the Masai, as famous for their good looks as for their hunting prowess, consult physicians who often turn to Terramycin® (oxytetracycline) - found wherever medicine is practiced."
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Text on recto reads: "Masai Woman. Series No. HSM 93."
Additional text on verso reads: "H. S. M. Limited, Mombasa. A real copyright photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-32
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