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Victoria Henry fonds
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1966-1971 (Creation)
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- Victoria Henry
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- Some materials were created and presumably collected by another source before being given to Henry.
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57 photographs: colour and black and white
1 booklet (99 pages)
60 textual records (newspaper clippings)
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Victorian Henry grew up in Burlington, Ontario and studied Fine Arts at the University of Toronto. She lived with her husband and three children in Lusaka, Zambia from 1972 to 1975, during which she began to collect African art in earnest. Leaving Africa in 1975, Henry began the Ufundi Gallery, specializing in Makonde and other African art. Henry continued making regular trips to Africa, India, and China to buy work until the gallery closed in 1992.
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This fonds includes items collected by Victoria Henry while she lived in Africa and traveled to Papua New Guinea. The fonds contain newspaper clippings possibly collected by Henry while living in Zambia, East Africa between 1972-1975. The fonds also contains photographs assumed to have been taken by Henry while visiting Goroka, Papua New Guinea, as well as a 1972 Teachers’ College Handbook from the country’s Department of Education.
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Material came in with object donation, accession #3548. Objects in this accession contain 11 pieces by Bruce Onobrakpeya. Additional objects donated previously by Henry are also available in the collection.
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Described by Eavan McNeil, January 2025