Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Matapi Town Chief and son at farm hut (platform for scaring birds), boy in foreground has a hoop for climbing trees
1978
Africa; Sierra Leone
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.
Donor notes read: "Matapi Town Chief and son at farm hut (platform for scaring birds); boy in foreground has a hoop for climbing trees. Taken Oct.- Nov. 1978 during P.C. Agriculture Training at Mabonto. The date on the slide is FEB 79.".
- Collection
- Christopher DeCorse photographs
- Archival grouping
- Christopher DeCorse photographs / Sierra Leone
- Catalog date
- 1978
- Recorded places
- Africa; Sierra Leone
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- DeCorse, Christopher R
- Recorded subjects
- Traditional architecture -- Photographs; Vernacular architecture
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1321
Collection: Christopher DeCorse photographs