Original caption reads, "One of the members of the Royal Dancers of the Kingdom of Burundi (Watutsi) entertainers at the Africa Pavilion. Lion mane headdress and leopard skin are traditional with these formerly fierce, towering hunters." Additional text reads, "(20) Prepared exclusively for - Africa Pavilion, New York World's Fair."
Local Numbers:
EEPA BD-08-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Original caption reads, "Un groupe d'Intores de l'Urundi / «Intore» groep (Urundi)." Additional printed text on verso reads: "(Ph. Rosmant.) / Journées Coloniales de Belgique, 189, rue du Cornet, Bruxelles / Koloniala Dagen Van België, 189, Hoornstraat, Brussel C/2." Publishers logo reads: "Nels."
Translated caption reads, "A group of Urundi Ntore [dancers]."
Local Numbers:
EEPA BD-08-02
General:
Title source: Postcard
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Text on recto reads: "East African Types. Watutsi Dancers. 169."
Additional text on verso reads: "Edition "Africa in Pictures." Copyright by S. Skulina PEGAS STUDIO - Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-08-05
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by catalogue number or subjects.
Numbering Peculiarities Note:
Verso labeled with additional accession number: A1995-23-3.
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Printed text on verso reads: "2288 - L'Afrique en Couleurs - Congo Belge - Tambours Watusi." Translated postcard caption reads: "Africa in colors. Belgian Congo. Watusi drummers."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Editions HOA-QUI - Paris / Reproduction Interdite." Stamp box reads: "Photo Veritable." Publisher's logo on verso: "Hoa-Qui."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-19-09
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
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Printed text on verso reads: "Exposition Universelle et Internationale / Bruxelles 1958 / Congo Belge Ruanda, Enfant Watutsi." Translated caption reads: "International Exposition [World's Fair] Brussels 1958 / Belgian Congo Rwanda, Watutsi Infant."
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Postcard image of a man wearing traditional attire. Text on verso reads: "One of the members of the Royal Dancers of the Kingdom of Burundi (Watutsi) entertainers at the Africa Pavilion. Lion mane headdress and leopard skin are traditional with these formerly fierce, towering hunters." and "(20) Prepared exclusively for AFRICA pavilion, New York World's Fair."
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Image indexed by negative number.
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Postcard image of a baby. Text on verso reads: "Exposition Universelle et Internationale; Bruxelles 1958" and "Congo Belge; Ruanda, Enfant Watutsi."
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Image indexed by negative number.
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Uwejeje imana --Inka yi abajiji --Exploits of the Urwintwali -- Ibabazabahizi --Warriors of the Urwintwali --Song of King Rwogera's Era --Amahamba --Inganji mu Milimba --Imigemba --Ikigemba --Ikigwiti --Amararo --Munyangago.
Local Numbers:
Folkways.428; Folkways.4428
FLP.40727
FW-COMM-LP-4428
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Folkways 1952
General:
Mostly vocal music. Production notes: Recorded by Leo A. Verwilghen in Rwanda, Africa.
Commercial
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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The Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Society Photographic Album documents the group's missions and the Africans living near them in the East African kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi (now the state of Rwanda-Burundi). Subjects include individual and group portraits of Africans, including members of the Tutsi royal family and the Tutsi elite, Christian families of Hutu origin, missionaries and Western visitors, and Twa people on an elephant hunt. There are also photos of landscapes, African villages and mission buildings, activities, including dancing and farming.
Scope and Contents:
The photographs document the Africans living near the Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Mission stations at Rwanda and Burundi. Most of the photographs are individual and group portraits of Africans, especially members of the Tutsi royal family and Tutsi elite of Rwanda and Burundi. Other portraits include Christian families of Hutu origin, the missionaries and Western visitors, and Twa people on an elephant hunt. Activities documented include attending a mission class, building grass and brick structures, carrying royalty on palanquins, carrying visitors, dancing, farming, drawing water, and weaving baskets. Objects depicted include baskets, combs, garments, jewelry, lances and shields. There are images of African villages and mission buildings, as well as landscapes of mountains and volcanoes.
Arrangement note:
Maintained original order (in order of original albums).
Biographical / Historical:
Cardinal Charles M. Lavigerie, the Catholic Archbishop of Algiers, founded the Society of Missionaries of Africa which became known as Pères Blancs in 1869. Beginning a plan of expansion in 1878, Lavigerie sent a group of missionaries across the Sahara to establish a mission in Timbuktu, but the efforts failed when the accompanying Africans revolted. Over 23 missionaries died before the mission was completed in the 1890s.
The Pères Blancs also established themselves in Uganda, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and the Upper Congo by the 1880s. Despite resistance from local chiefs and governments, the society continued to expand in the first part of the 20th century, setting up hospitals; elementary, normal and technical schools; and seminaries in Africa, as well as training schools in several European countries. After World War II the society's influence declined, although it still operates today.
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Genre/Form:
Photographic prints
Citation:
Pères Blancs (White Fathers) photographic albums, EEPA 1987-010, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonia Institution.
Series 3 is comprised of 1 album containing 80 silver gelatin prints, taken in Burundi. Many of these photographs consist of individual and group portraits of the family of Mwezi Gisabo and Ririkumutima, including his brothers and their wives, his sons, and his grandsons. Also included are portraits of servants, young children, dancers, and several Tutsi and Batwa women. Many of these individuals have shaved hairstyles and are wearing clothes constructed of ficus tree fiber, necklaces made of bone, pearls, or beads, and rosaries. Many individuals are also depicted holding bows and lances. There are also images of woven baskets, combs, spears, and shields. Specific sites include the Mugera cathedral, built by the White Fathers in 1922 near the Ruvyironza river, a sawmill in the Kibira forest, and a festival in Gitega.
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Pères Blancs (White Fathers) photographic albums, EEPA 1987-010, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonia Institution.
The photograph depicts Ntore dancer performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
Local Numbers:
F 4 TTS 1 EE 70
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
3
Frame value is 4.
Slide No. F 4 TTS 1 EE 70
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The photograph depicts Ntore dancer performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
Local Numbers:
F 4 TTS 2 EE 70
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
3
Frame value is 5.
Slide No. F 4 TTS 2 EE 70
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The photograph depicts Ntore dancer performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
Local Numbers:
F 4 TTS 3 EE 70
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
3
Frame value is 6.
Slide No. F 4 TTS 3 EE 70
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The photograph depicts Ntore dancer performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
Local Numbers:
F 4 TTS 4 EE 70
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
3
Frame value is 7.
Slide No. F 4 TTS 4 EE 70
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The photograph depicts Ntore dancer performing traditional Tutsi dance, on shore of Lake Kivu. Originally, the Ntore dancers were the pages of the Mwami court; they were all sons of chiefs or notables. The choreography consisted principally of warlike dances called the Ikumu (the lance), the Umuheto (the bow) and the Ingabo (the shield), in which the dancers carried real arms. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Westinghouse Film and traveled to Africa from October 26, 1970 to end of March 1971.
Local Numbers:
F 4 TTS 5 EE 70
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
3
Frame value is 8.
Slide No. F 4 TTS 5 EE 70
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