Salut Dogon, ia po (35 sec.) --Chants d'agriculteurs (2 min., 55 sec.) --Chants de femmes (1 min., 55 sec.) --Chanteurs de Sanga (2 min., 48 sec.) --Pilage du mil du Hogon (2 min., 30 sec.) --Chant des guerrisseurs (2 min., 58 sec.) --Her! Her! Yaouler mi ober ma her! (2 min., 50 sec.) --Annonce des funerrailles (3 min., 45 sec.) --Chant des Andoumboulou (3 min., 20 sec.) --Rhombe (1 min., 35 sec.) --Sortie des masques (1 min., 47 sec.) --Danse du Kanaga (2 min.) -- Danse du siriguer (3 min., 10 sec.).
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-3556
Ocora.33
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Paris, France Ocora 1974
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mali.
General:
Field recording of native songs and dances. "This ... album represents a number of items previously issued on a 10th album (2 records): SOR 1 and 2 (now out of print)."--Container. Program notes in English and French inside container; text by Franc.ois di Dio and Germaine Dieterlen, photographs by Nicole Menant. Production notes: Recorded in Mali in 1956 by Francois di Dio; produced by the Office de radiodiffusion-teEÌ€'leEÌ€'vision francEÌ€.aise.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection dates from 1966 to 1976 and includes 1,817 black and white negatives, 1,519 35mm color slides, several hundred prints, and manuscript materials. Locations include Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Israel, Mali, and Niger and depict agriculture, architecture, especially mosques, landscapes, marketplaces, masquerade and musical performances, sculptures, and textiles. Peoples depicted include the Bambara, Bella, Bozo, Dogon, Fulani, Gao, Mandingo, San, Songhai, and Tuarag peoples.
Scope and Contents:
This collection dates from 1966 to 1976 and includes 1,817 black and white negatives, 1,519 35mm color slides, several hundred prints, and manuscript materials. Images were taken in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Israel, Mali, and Niger and depict agriculture, architecture, especially mosques, landscapes, marketplaces, masquerade and musical performances, sculptures, textiles. Peoples depicted include the Bambara, Bella, Bozo, Dogon, Fulani, Gao, Mandingo, San, Songhai, and Tuarag peoples.
Arrangement:
Arranged in four series, according to format.
Series 1: Negatives
Series 2: Slides
Series 3: Photographic Prints
Series 4: Manuscript Materials
Biographical / Historical:
Marli Shamir (1919-2016) was an Israeli photographer known for her extensive work in Mali, the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso from 1966-1973. Born and raised in Berlin, Shamir started studying photography during her teenage years and took photography classes at the Contempora Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst (1934-1937).
In 1938, she was forced to immigrate to Israel where she initially lived in a kibbutz.
From 1941-1943, she worked at the mineralogy department of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, and then opened her own studio in Jerusalem in 1945. In 1953, she married Meir Shamir, a former Israeli Diplomat-Ambassador, and from 1966-1973 she lived successively in Mali, Gabon and Cote d'Ivoire. She held a particular fascination with architecture, monuments, mosques, arts and habitants.
During her stay in Mali, she met Pascal James Imperato with whom she wrote the article "Bokolanfini Mud Cloth of the Bamana of Mali" (African Arts, 1970). In 1976, she produced the exhibition Sahel at the Israeli museum in Jerusalem, which focused on the rural and urban architecture and people of the Sahel. The exhibition toured in Europe later that year. From 1977-1981, she lived in Strasbourg, where she focused on documenting the new style of architecture in Mali. Her work on this project is stored at the Center of Documentation in Strasbourg.
In 2005, a book devoted to her photographs from Mali was published by the Grandvaux French Edition House. The National Poet of Mali, Albakaye Ousmane Kounta, collaborated with Shamir on a book of poetry, Djenney-Ferey –La terre habitee (published by Grandaux, 2007), which is illustrated with Shamir's photographs. Shamir passed away in 2016 at the age of 93.
Related Materials:
The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives also holds another collection of Shamir's photographs, EEPA 1995-025.
Provenance:
Purchased, 2013
Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1969
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Banani; 632-1
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1969
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Banani; 632-2
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1969
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Banani; 632-3
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1969
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Banani; 632-4
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1967
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina, Baobab trees; 642a-1
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1967
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina, Baobab trees; 642a-2
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1968
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina, Baobab trees; 642a-3
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1969
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina, Baobab trees; 642a-4
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1970
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina, Baobab trees; 642a-5
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120 mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Place:
Mali
Date:
1970
General:
Shamir's original descriptions and negative numbers: Republic of Mali, Dogon Diamina Tombs; 648-3
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.