Mask of African medicine man by artists Beulah Woodward, Los Angeles, circa September 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Mask of African medicine man by artists Beulah Woodward, Los Angeles, circa September 1935
- Date Created
- [September, 1935?]
- Date
- 1935-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Possible from show at Los Angeles Museum, September 1935. Text on note card says: Medicine Man. There are three kinds of witch doctors in Africa—the poisoner, hired to dispose of the enemy, the one who casts spells, and the one who has a real knowledge of herbs. For ceremonial performances the face is usually painted.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Masks from the studio of Beulah Woodward
Handwritten annotation from negative: Masks by Beulah Woodward, 11929
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Woodward, Beulah
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sculpture--California--Los Angeles
People
Arts
Masks
Culture
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00254wf7
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .