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Series 3: Graphic Images, 1963
BOX 3 Hanna’s African Trip: January –December
212 35 mm color slides
PH001-PH212 contains a variety of images captured by Hanna during her one year visit to Africa in 1963. The slides are arranged chronologically by year and region.
BOX 4 Hanna’s African Trip: January –December
204 35 mm color slides
PH213-319 are arranged chronologically. PH320-PH416 are not arranged chronologically. The inclusive months are January; March-July; September-October, and December 1963.
BOX 5 Hanna’s African Trip: January –December
18 35 mm color slides
PH417-PH434 contains a variety of images captured by Hanna during her one year visit to Africa in 1963. The inclusive months are January; March-July; September-October, and December. The slides are not in chronological order.
Series 4: Moving Images
Original films are silent. Sound recordings made at the time of filming on 1/4 –inch reel-to-reel were used to create and sync the soundtrack during film digitization. See Series 2: Sound Recordings for original audio recordings.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV01 African Dances: Enugu Festival of the Arts
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm.; black and white; silent
Digital ID: afc2010021_mv01.mov
1 video file (10:24 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
Nigeria: girls and boys from different groups perform on "Face the Nation" dance program. Efik girls’ abang dance from Calabar; girls’ umunna erico dance from Orlu; girls’ egwu amala-bu-ugu (#3 winner); older boys’ ugeolomo dance (#1 winner); Ijaw boys’ sereme igelenge dance; etilobu dance from Onitsha, and Abakaliki girls’ dance.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV02 African Dances: Ethiopia's Haile Selassie I Folk Lore Ensemble (Haile Selassie I Theatre), December 12, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv02.mov
1 video file (35:55 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
Ethiopia: performance celebrating Kenya's Independence. The performance includes a series of folk music and dances: Flower Picking Song; Gurage folk dance; Buna coffee plantation song dances; Issa & Ougaden folk dance; Gondor folk-song; Arussi folk dance; Swahili Amharic dance; Gemu Gofa weavers; Wolamo folk dance for men and women, and the Tigre folk dance.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV03 African Dances: Ibadin, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation ; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv03.mov
1 video file (14:00 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
King’s market: group of drummers & their hangers-on; boys from secondary school returning from a church service at their school; ladies society; women from Benin dance to propitiate the Goddess of the Sea, Olokun.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV04 African Dances: Kenya I, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv04.mov
1 video file (19:55 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
Different tribes perform outdoors in the stadium. These include the Giriama, Luo, Wacuria, Kipsigis, Wakamba, Kikuyu, Nandi, Samburu, Wakamba, Suk, Turkana, Thoraka, and the Embu.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV05 African dances: Kenya II, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv05.mov
1 video file (23:47 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
Continuation of previous recording also includes the Kenyan flag raising ceremony including fireworks.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV06 African Dances: Kenya III, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. color; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv06.mov
1 video file (5:55 min.): digital, sound; color.
Tribal dancers include the Giriama, Luo, Malagory, Wacuria, Coastal girls and the Turkana.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV07 African Dances: Nigeria, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv07.mov
1 video file (35:55 min.): digital; black and white color.
Recording begins with a few frames from Ethiopia. The remaining footage contains dancers and masqueraders from different tribes in Nigeria. It also includes the Igbo celebration of S.O. Chinke, the bridge launching, the Okoro clan market day, and a special festival.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV08 African Dances: Uganda I, 1963
1 film reel: acetate, single perforation; 16 mm. black and white; silent
Digital-ID: afc2010021_mv08.mov
1 video file (27:50 min.): digital, sound; black and white.
Acholi District dance competitions August 29-30, 1963, A Pageant of Uganda, Baganda tribe dance and culture, tribes from Northern and South Western Uganda, Bugisu District Council Inauguration, September 20, 1963, and other tribal dances.
ITEM-ID AFC 2010/021: MV09 African Dances: Uganda II
1 film reel : acetate, single perforation; 16 mm.
black and white; silent
BOX 6 Oversize materials
Includes originals and other oversized materials from Subseries B: Field research materials
  • Series 1, subseries B: Field research materials, Nigeria: Ubakala histories, May 25, 1963
  • Series 1, subseries B: Field research materials, Nigeria: East Nigeria newspaper clippings, 1963-1968; 1970-1971, (1/2)
  • Series 1, subseries B: Field research materials, Nigeria: East Nigeria newspaper clippings, 1963-1968; 1970-1971, (2/2)
  • Series 1, subseries B: Field research materials, clippings of Ugandan culture, 1963-1972, (1/2)
  • Series 1, subseries B: Field research materials, clippings of Ugandan culture, 1963-1972, (2/2)
  • Series 1, subseries B: Kenyan and Ethiopian dance and culture, 1963

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