Congo Français Femmes "Sanghos."
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CF-20-10
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Brazzaville)
topic: label: Topic
content: Portrait photography
label: Topic
content: Body arts
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Hairstyles -- Africa
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF)
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 CF 1985-140678
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: "Congo Français. Femmes 'Sanghos'."
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content: Translated caption reads: "French Congo. 'Sangho' women."
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content: Postmarked postage stamps on recto, manuscript message and address on verso.
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content: This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 in a Sango village nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. Two Sangho women wear typical scarifications on their abdomen, chest and arms. They both have 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.]