Congo Français Congo Français et Dépendances - Type Bongo - Rivière Kouango
Object Details
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Image indexed by negative number.
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Topic
- Portrait photography -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Body arts
- Provenance
- JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
- Culture
- Bongo (African people)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF) / Audema
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1909]
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA 1985-140094-01
- Type
- Archival materials
- 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
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Translated caption reads: ''French Congo and Territories - Type Bongo - Kouango River''. Young man wearing a hair ornaments, lipplug in his upper lip and labret in his lower lip. Recto postmarked stamps reads: ''13.?.09. Brazzaville. Congo Français.'' Manuscript on verso reads: ''Brazzaville 2-8-09. Signature: L. Rémy. Addressed to: ''Monsieur L. Rémy - 38 bis rue Fabert - Paris''. Congo Français. Photograph by J. Audema
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087798-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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