Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: ca. 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.057624

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscriptions]; Verso, handwritten, top left: Village Life [underlined]; handwritten: Liberia / festival; handwritten in black ink: 3 – 11 x 11 / 3 – 8 x 8 glossy SW; handwritten in pencil: 135 – 8 / T; adhered typed label: Drummers in Sanniquellie area Proessure [sic] of armpit on hour-glass / shaped drum at right varies its tone; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Africa; Algeria; Day; Drums; Hat; Headgear; Male; Musical instrument; Outdoors; Shamanism; Shamanism; Still life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ALGERIA / PEOPLE
Retouching: N