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Object Number
2000.8
Display Title
Harold E. Manley material
Descriptions
Object Description
Harold E. Manley material including: framed account; 8 x 10 b/w photo of Manley(?) and another person displaying African objects; four 5.5 x 3.25 photos of people wearing textile garments, people in costume and on stilts, and perhaps a Christian ceremony; 5.5 x 3.25 photo of masked and costumed figure, labelled on back "A Mendi devil"; 4.5 x 2.5 photo of man beside an enormous ant hill, labelled on the back "Ant hill"; 5.5 x 3.5 photo postcard, titled "A snake charmer, Sierra Leone; Greensmith Photo" showing a man with snakes around his neck; 5.5 x 3.5 photo postcard, titled "Bundu initiates, Sierra Leone; Greensmith Photo" showing five young girls in ceremonial attire, and their adult attendant; 14 photos of construction of Christian mission, mounted on a wooden board, with explanatory notes (Manley appears in two or three of the photos)
Inventory Description
Harold E. Manley material
Department
Photographic
Date
1920-1924
Culture
- Mende
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Liberia
Africa / Sierra Leone
Africa / Sierra Leone
Credit Line
Gift of Bertram J. & Ruth S. Malenka
Provenance
Collector
Harold E. Manley
(1920-1924)
Donor
Ruth S. Malenka
(1960 ca. - 3/22/2000)
Donor
Bertram J. Malenka
(1960 ca. - 3/22/2000)
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