IDNO

P.139078.MF

Description

A local, possibly Nupe?, man paddling a canoe with awning in a river with vegetation on both banks. The photograph has been made into a Christmas card. [JD 1/5/2017]

Place

W Africa; ?Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

?Nupe

Named Person

?Siegfried Frederick Nadel

Photographer

?Nadel, Siegfried Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Fortes, Meyer

Date

Collection Name

Fortes Collection

Source

Drucker-Brown, Susan

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.136462.MF - P.136463.MF, and P.139077.MF - P.139078.MF were located in a brown envelope now numbered C881/.

Biographical Information: Siegfried Frederick Nadel (24 April 1903 – 14 January 1956), known as Fred Nadel, was an Austrian-born British anthropologist, specialising in African ethnology.
In 1932 Nadel was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, allowing him to do post-graduate training in anthropological African field research. Nadel studied at the London School of Economics, supervised by Bronisław Malinowski and C.G. Seligman. Nadel was one of three students—the other being Meyer Fortes and Sjoerd Hofstra—to receive this fellowship, and they became known as 'The Mandarins', one of the first cohort of students to study with Mailinowski. A closely knit group, all them planned on studying West Africa, and even traveled in the same ship from England to Africa. Nadel began his fieldwork in Nigeria in 1933 with the Nupe people of modern-day Nigeria. His Ph.D., completed in 1935, was entitled Political and Religious Structure of Nupe Society. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Frederick_Nadel, JD 1/5/2017]