La Croisière Noire Femme d'un chef Mangbetu (Congo Belge)
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA CG-20-76
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Citation source: Archives staff.
- Photographer
- Poirier, Léon
- Specht, Georges
- Creator
- Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique (1924-1925)
- See Also
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Orientale Province, Niangara (3.7, 27.86667)
- Interactive maps
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Orientale Province -- Niangara
- Topic
- Portrait photography
- Hairstyles -- Africa
- Provenance
- JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
- Photographer
- Poirier, Léon
- Specht, Georges
- Creator
- Expédition Citroën Centre-Afrique (1924-1925)
- Culture
- Mangbetu (African people)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
- Date
- 1925
- Container
- Volume 3 CG
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CG 2011-001-1021
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Geary, Christraud, M. "In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960," London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2002, p. 49.
- Genre/Form
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Nobosodrou, a Mangbetu woman in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Photograph by Leon Poirier and Georges Specht during the French Citroen Expedition through Africa. March, 1925. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Printed recto caption reads: "La Croisière Noire / Femme d'un chef Mangbetu (Congo Belge)." Translated postcard caption reads: "The Black Cruise / Wife of a Mangbetu chief."
- Additional printed text on recto reads: "Expèdition Citroen - Centre Afrique / Deuxième Mission Haardt-Audouin Dubreuil." Translated additional text reads: "Citroen expedition - Central Africa. Second mission Haardt-Audouin Dubreuil."
- Item EEPA CG-20-75 published with the following caption: "Mangbetu woman Nobosodrou, wife of Mangbetu king Touba, Niangara, Belgian Congo." Photograph by Léon Poirier and Georges Specht during the French Citroen Expedition through Africa. March, 1925.
- Items EEPA CG-20-75 and EEPA CG-20-76 are duplicate postcards.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087661-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0