Beatrix Heintze postcards
place: label: Place
content: Egypt
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content: Algeria
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content: Africa
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content: Sudan
abstract: label: Summary
content: Postcards collected by Leo Frobenius (1873-1938), who was an eminent German ethnographer, scholar and writer. He founded the Frobenius-Institut in Frankfurt, which exists to this day. It is likely that he collected them during his 1926 expedition to explore rock painting in the Nubian desert, which took him to Upper Egypt and to the Sudan. Another possibility is that he collected the cards on one of his later expeditions to North Africa or even purchased them in Europe. 

Eleven postcards belong to a series published by G.N. Morhig, the English Pharmacy in Khartoum, a town Frobenius must have visited during his 1926 expedition. They depict peoples in the Sudan (Nubians, Arab, Shilluk, Tonga, Bari and Jur) and their various dress and adornment. Two photographic postcards by M. Venieris depict a dance, and, Ab del gadir-Wad Halomia, "the rebel of April 1908," clearly is republished from an earlier image. The remaining postcards are part of the typical Orientalist depictions of women and children. J. Geiser of Aligiers is one of the publishers.
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content: 15 Postcards (black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: between 1905-1938
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Originally collected by Leo Frobenius (1873-1928), an eminent German ethnographer; maintained by a former student of Frobenius, Dr. Hildegrad Klein, who in turn gave them to Dr. Beatrice Heintze. Heintze donated the postcards to the National Museum of African Art in 2003.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2003-002
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Picture postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: postcards:organized in one volumes
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content: Picture postcards