Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Fibers and dyes to be made into a mat for an Opha ceremony, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria
1971
African history · place not specified
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Cataloged as “Fibers and dyes to be made into a mat for an Opha ceremony, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
- Collection
- Jean Borgatti Collection
- Archival grouping
- Jean Borgatti Collection / Series 1: Field Slides / 1.1: Field Slides / Urhobo Emadaja Masquerade, Benin City, Nigeria
- Catalog date
- 1971
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Borgatti, Jean
- Recorded subjects
- Urhobo (African people); Okpe (Urhobo people)
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-007, Item EEPA 2016-007-0125
Collection: Jean Borgatti Collection