Papers of De Ama Battle, 1970-2015

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Ghana. Includes shots of city streets and village dance and music performances.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle trip likely to Tunisia. Includes footage of city life, buildings, landscape, and music performance.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Gambia. Includes footage of local drumming and dance performances and wrestling match.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Jamaica and Mali. Includes footage of unidentified stage performance, a parade, dance class practice, drumming performance.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Ghana. Includes nearly identical footage from MP-66.1 with additional footage of De Ama Battle playing with village children.

Footage of performances by the Art of Black Dance and Music and the Black Heritage Dancers at unidentified venues.

Footage of stage performance by National Ballet Company of Senegal. Also includes footage of city streets, village children, and local dance practice.

Extended footage of stage performance by National Ballet Company of Senegal featured in MP-66.7.

Travel and family footage. Includes dancing child, the Grand Canyon, Navajo dance, San Francisco, civil rights march against segregation, De Ama Battle, Disneyland, unidentified commencement ceremony, and family and friends.

Travel and research footage of De Ama Battle's trip to Gambia that is nearly identical to that in MP-66.3. Includes train ride to village, market day, children, wrestling match and local drumming and dance performances.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Gambia. Includes footage of dance practice and performances. De Ama Battle is present in some dances. The dance studio practice scene can also be found in MP-66.3.

Research and travel footage from De Ama Battle's trip to Ghana. Includes footage of Ghana market, local dance and music performance, fishing, and the beach.

Partial recording of television documentary on Oyotunji African village, an intentional community in South Carolina based on Yoruba and Dahomey tribes of West Africa; children's music program led by De Ama Battle and Art of Black Dance and Music; participatory drumming event at a park; and family and friends at home.

Research and travel footage from unidentified African country (possibly Zimbabwe). Includes women dancing, village school children, landscape shots, wild animals, stone ruins, and African dinner dance performance.