Congo Français Trous d'oreilles Sacomas
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CF-20-25
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
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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 1985-140702
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. / Trous d'oreilles Sacomas."
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content: Translated caption reads: "French Congo. Sacoma ear plugs."
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content: Postmarked postage stamps on recto and verso.
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content: This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 of Yakoma people nearby nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. This man has scarifications on his abdomen, chest, and arms. He also has keloids on his forehead. [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.]