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E. Blanche Nagelgast, the former curator of the Africana Museum in Johannesburg, describes hearing Dr. John Kinard's speech at the Conference of the South African Museums Association in 1987, how he described the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (now Anacostia Community Museum) with great pride, and the impact it had on her and her colleagues. She describes how the Africana Museum began to build a non-Eurocentric museum, and began collecting things from the indigenous population, like artwork, bead work, headdresses, and bridal veils. She talks at length about animal toys that children in rural areas had made from wire, which are now collected by museums, including a museum in Washington.
The interview was conducted by Zora Martin-Felton. There is some minor background noise, but the interview can be heard clearly throughout the recording.
Biographical / Historical:
E. Blanche Nagelgast (1931-) worked as a cataloguer for the Johannesburg Public Library, in South Africa, in 1962 and became a librarian in 1975. She joined the staff of the Africana Museum in Johannesburg in 1976, and became chief curator in 1980. She retired in 1993.
Provenance:
Conducted as part of the ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, which includes approximately 100 interviews of residents and influential people of the Anacostia area of Washington, DC.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
View of City Square with Group in Horse-Drawn Carriages Near Obelisk; Other Group, Carriages, Horse-Drawn Streetcar, "Eastern Province Herald" Building; Churches, Houses, and Commercial Building
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (008 in x 006 in mounted on 010 in x 008 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1890
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.06028200
Local Note:
Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount
Place:
South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope/Cape Colony
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 97 DOE Africa: South Africa: Gen/Unid: NM 392690 06028200, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Whites Inside Union Government Pavillion at Empire Exhibition in Cape Town, Viewing Relief Map Showing South Africa's Fruit Areas; Fruit Specimens in Glass Cases Nearby