Enterrement chez les Bacotjé Le cerceuil, partie postérieure. Congo littoral
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CG-23-02
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
label: General
content: Citation source: Archives staff.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1907
container: label: Container
content: Volume 3 CG
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CG 1985-140822
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed caption on recto reads: "Enterrement chez les Bacotjé. Le cerceuil, partie postérieure. Congo littoral." Translated postcard caption reads: "Burial among the Bacotjé. The casket, background. Coastal Congo."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript message on recto, message reads: "Oscar Berton. Chef de chantier aux chemins de fer supérieur aux grands lacs africains. Kindu. Haut-Congo." Translated message reads: " Oscar Berton, chief of the building site of the main railway at the big african lakes. Kindu. Upper Congo."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript address on verso, postmarked postage stamps on verso, date reads: "25 FEVR 07."