Congo Français Belle-mère Boubou
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CX-20-07
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Central African Republic
topic: label: Topic
content: Portrait photography -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Costume -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Hairstyles -- Africa
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 9: Central African Republic (CX)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1909
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CX 2011-001-0467
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Picture postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Picture postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed text on recto reads: "Congo Français. / Belle-mère Boubou."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Translated caption reads: "French Congo. / Boubou mother-in-law."
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content: This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 in a Ngbugu village nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. The woman has a cylindrical labret on her upper lip and a hair garmented with beads called bayaka.  [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.]