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"--from our minds" : painting, sculpture, drawing exhibition

Author:
Goethe-Institut (Lagos, Nigeria)  Search this
Subject:
Babatunde, G  Search this
Olaku, Abiodun  Search this
Osiemi, Felix 1961-  Search this
Physical description:
24 p. : ill. ; 15 x 21 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1988
1988?]
20th century
Topic:
Art, African  Search this
Art, Nigerian  Search this
Call number:
N7399.N5 F93 1988
N7399.N5F93 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_380433
view "A Polio Free Nigeria" - Rotary International Cap digital asset number 1

"A Polio Free Nigeria" - Rotary International Cap

Maker:
KC  Search this
Rotary International  Search this
Physical Description:
fabric (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
metal (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 5 in x 11 in x 9 in; 12.7 cm x 27.94 cm x 22.86 cm
Object Name:
cap, polio eradication
Credit Line:
Gift of Rotary International
ID Number:
2004.0288.03
Accession number:
2004.0288
Catalog number:
2004.0288.03
See more items in:
Medicine and Science: Medicine
The Antibody Initiative
Health & Medicine
Antibody Initiative: Polio
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-7d9a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1279887
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"A bottle of gin is dangled before the nose of the natives" : gin currency in colonial southern Nigeria

Author:
Heap, Simon  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
2009
Topic:
Alcoholic beverages  Search this
Alcoholic beverage industry  Search this
Money  Search this
Commerce  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HG1322 .M66 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_969863
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"A great many boys and girls" : Igbo youth in the British slave trade, 1700-1808 / Audra A. Diptee

Author:
Diptee, Audra  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Caribbean Area
Nigeria
Niger River Delta
Date:
2016
18th century
Topic:
Child slaves  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Youth, Igbo  Search this
Call number:
DT515.45.I33 I4235 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1088753
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"A la recherche du temps perdu" : on being an ebony-carver in Benin

Title:
On being an ebony-carver in Benin
Author:
Ben-Amos, Paula  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1976
Topic:
Wood-carving, Bini  Search this
Bini sculptors  Search this
Tourism and art  Search this
Call number:
N5311 .E73X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_753581
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"A matter of must" : continuities and change in the Adugbologe woodcarving workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria / Norma H. Wolff

Author:
Wolff, Norma Hackleman 1933-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Adugbologe family  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Abeokuta
Date:
2013
Topic:
Art workshops (Organizations)  Search this
Wood-carving, Egba  Search this
Sculpture, Yoruba  Search this
Yoruba woodcarvers  Search this
Art patronage  Search this
Call number:
N8520 .A39 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1006730
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"A new art culture for a new society" : Verwobene Geschichten einer postkolonialen Moderne in Nigeria = "A new art culture for a new society" : interwoven histories of postcolonial modernism in Nigeria / Isabelle Malz

Title:
New art culture for a new society : interwoven histories of postcolonial modernism in Nigeria
Author:
Malz, Isabelle 1971-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Enwonwu, Ben 1917-1994  Search this
Ngu, Etso Ugbodaga 1921-1996  Search this
Okeke, Uche 1933-2016  Search this
Nwoko, Demas  Search this
Mbari Club  Search this
World Festival of Negro Arts (1st : 1966 : Dakar, Senegal)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
2018
20th century
Topic:
Modernism (Art)  Search this
Art, Nigerian  Search this
Artists  Search this
Call number:
N6488.G3 D876 2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1115277
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"A thing to govern the town" gendered masquerades and the politics of the chiefs and the monarchy in the rebuilding of a town, 1848-1859 John Thabiti Willis

Author:
Willis, John Thabiti 1976-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Otta
Otta (Nigeria)
Date:
2018
19th century
Topic:
Yoruba masquerades  Search this
Yoruba masquerade performance  Search this
Egúngún (Cult)  Search this
Gelede masquerades  Search this
History  Search this
Kings and rulers  Search this
Call number:
DT515.45.Y67 W55 2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1118150
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"A very bloody transaction" : Old Calabar and the massacre of 1767

Title:
Old Calabar and the massacre of 1767
Author:
Sparks, Randy J  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Calabar
Date:
2004
Topic:
Kings and rulers  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Slave traders  Search this
Call number:
DA125.N4 S66 2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758052
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"Aba riots" or Igbo "Women's war"? : ideology, stratification, and the invisibility of women

Author:
Van Allen, Judith  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria, Eastern
Date:
1976
Topic:
Women's Revolt, Nigeria, 1929  Search this
Women, Igbo  Search this
Government, Resistance to  Search this
Call number:
HQ1788 .W58X 1976
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_750612
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"Adire" traditional cloths in contemporary Nigeria : a semiotic analysis / by Kodilinye Owunna Igwe

Author:
Igwe, Kodilinye Owunna 1946-  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 213, [1] leaves : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1988
1990
Topic:
Adire  Search this
Resist-dyed textiles  Search this
Textile fabrics  Search this
Textile design  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Semiotics in art  Search this
Call number:
NK9504.7 .I24 1988a
NK9504.7.I24 1988a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_386717
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"African Concord" magazine

Collection Creator:
Kaplan, Flora S.  Search this
Container:
Box 36
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1989
Collection Restrictions:
The Flora S. Kaplan papers are currently closed to researchers due to donor imposed restrictions. Please contact the NAA for further information.
Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Flora S. Kaplan papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
See more items in:
Flora S. Kaplan papers
Flora S. Kaplan papers / Series 2: Benin (Nigeria) / 2.4: Administration and research / Publications and press:
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-2015-21-ref838
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"Afro-American Session," Nigeria Talk

Collection Creator:
Merritt, Francis Sumner, 1913-2000  Search this
Extent:
includes one sound tape reel
Container:
Box 2, Folder 11
Type:
Archival materials
Audio [31027000842068]
Date:
circa 1970s
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Francis Sumner Merritt Papers, circa 1930-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
See more items in:
Francis Sumner Merritt papers
Francis Sumner Merritt papers / Series 4: Professional Files / 4.1: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw969222f7e-089e-43da-bb42-cf2a80fa5c7c
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-merrfran-ref22
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"Agha a diro mma" or "War is not good" : the Biafran War through the eyes of artists / Obiora Udechuk[w]u

Title:
"War is not good"
Biafran War through the eyes of artists
Author:
Udechukwu, Obiora 1946-  Search this
Seminar on "Healing the Social Wounds of War" (1991 : Windhoek, Namibia)  Search this
Physical description:
12 leaves ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1991
[1991]
20th century
Civil War, 1967-1970
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
History  Search this
In art  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_539001
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"Alarinjo" : the traditional Yoruba travelling theatre

Author:
Adedeji, Joel Adeyinka  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1978
Topic:
Alarinjo (Yoruba theater)  Search this
Yoruba drama  Search this
Traveling theater  Search this
Egúngún (Cult)  Search this
Yoruba theater  Search this
Call number:
PN2969 .O35
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_751517
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"Anaforvana" by Paul Sierra flag, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Names:
Sierra, Paul, 1944-  Search this
Collection Photographer:
Houlberg, Marilyn  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (Color, 35 mm.)
Culture:
Yoruba (African people)  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Date:
1985-10
Scope and Contents:
Original text on slide reads, ""Anaforvana"by Paul Sierra flag. From show at Halsted Gallery in Chicago. U.S. Cuban"
Restrictions:
Access by appointment only. To make a research appointment, contact Archives staff at elisofonarchives@si.edu.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. For terms of use, contact Archives staff at elisofonarchives@si.edu.
Topic:
Textile fabrics in art  Search this
Collection Citation:
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria Collection, EEPA 2005-002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1793
See more items in:
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Yoruba art in Chicago, Illinois / Paul Sierra Show at Halsted Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo7f3388cb2-6690-4284-9e52-10dc5cf469de
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-2005-002-ref3443
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"Answered Prayers" by Paul Sierra, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Names:
Sierra, Paul, 1944-  Search this
Collection Photographer:
Houlberg, Marilyn  Search this
Extent:
1 Slides (photographs) (Color, 35 mm.)
Culture:
Yoruba (African people)  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Date:
1985-10
Scope and Contents:
Original text on slide reads, ""Answered Prayers"by Paul Sierra. From show at Halsted Gallery in Chicago. Cuban-American Artist. U.S. Cuban"
Restrictions:
Access by appointment only. To make a research appointment, contact Archives staff at elisofonarchives@si.edu.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. For terms of use, contact Archives staff at elisofonarchives@si.edu.
Topic:
Art, Cuban  Search this
Collection Citation:
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria Collection, EEPA 2005-002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1794
See more items in:
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Yoruba art in Chicago, Illinois / Paul Sierra Show at Halsted Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo703acb490-5801-4f46-908f-937d0c083356
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-2005-002-ref3444
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"Art of the Royal Court of Benin," programme

Collection Creator:
Kaplan, Flora S.  Search this
Container:
Box 47
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1985
Collection Restrictions:
The Flora S. Kaplan papers are currently closed to researchers due to donor imposed restrictions. Please contact the NAA for further information.
Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Flora S. Kaplan papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
See more items in:
Flora S. Kaplan papers
Flora S. Kaplan papers / Series 2: Benin (Nigeria) / 2.5: Related symposia and exhibitions
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-2015-21-ref457
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"Awo" : a statue for Ibadan

Author:
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Barber, Abayomi 1928-2021  Search this
Awolowo, Obafemi 1909-1987 Statues  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Ibadan
Date:
1961
Topic:
Portrait sculpture  Search this
Call number:
DT470 .W518
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1055122
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"BOSKONA" : rags in costume racks / Bankole Ojo

Author:
Ojo, Bankole  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
2001
Topic:
Used clothing industry  Search this
Clothing trade  Search this
Call number:
NX589.6.N5 J68
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1086979

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