Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Ibibio naturalistic mask, Nigeria
1969-04
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.
Original text on slide reads, "Ibibio naturalistic mask. Alien prettiness on top. Tresses swine Centrifugally to left and right. Imitates Victorian Missionaries or pictures".
- Collection
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection
- Archival grouping
- Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection / Ibibio
- Catalog date
- 1969-04
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Houlberg, Marilyn
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (Color, 35 mm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-0995
Collection: Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria collection