Congo Français Femmes et enfants Boubous

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Printed text on recto reads: "Congo Français. / Femmes et enfants Boubous." Translated caption reads: "French Congo. / Boubous women and children." Postmarked postage stamp on recto. Manuscript message and address on verso. Postmark on verso. This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 in a Ngbugu village nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. There is a woman at rest, sitting on a wood bed called krékoi (pronounced "creakwaw" in English. The whole group is posing in front of a typical Ngbugu hut. [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.].

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 9: Central African Republic (CX)

Catalog date

ca. 1909

Recorded places

Africa; Central African Republic

Recorded subjects

Households -- Africa; Portrait photography -- Africa

Format and extent

1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 8.8 x 13.8 cm.)

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