Congo Francais Coiffure de femme Boubou
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA CX-05-01
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Photographer
- Béchaud, Auguste, 1874-1912
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Central African Republic
- Topic
- Body arts
- Hairstyles -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Provenance
- JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase.
- Photographer
- Béchaud, Auguste, 1874-1912
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 9: Central African Republic (CX)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 8.8 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1909
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CX 2011-001-0448
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture 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.
- Genre/Form
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Printed text on recto reads: "Congo Francais. Coiffure de femme Boubou."
- Translated caption reads: "French Congo. Boubou woman's hairstyle."
- Manuscript message and address on verso. Postmark on verso. Postmarked postage stamp on recto.
- This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 in a Ngbugu village nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. The woman has her hair garmented with beads called bayaka and her loincloth is a leather belt. [Provided by Juan Fandos-Ruis and Didier Carité] [Sources: Bradshaw, Richard and Juan Fandos-Rius, "Béchaud, Augustee (1874-1912)" in Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic, 111. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, New Editions 2016. Carité, Didier, Auguste Béchaud, photographe-soldat en Afrique centrale 1909-1912, 2009.]
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087542-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0