Gabon - Deux Petits Amis (Gabon - Two Little Babies)

Unknown Gabonese, Gabonese

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1930

Photo offset lithograph postcard

Overall: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

2006.18.3

Publisher

Société des Missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris Evangelical Missionary Society)

Geography

Place Made: Gabon, Central Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, in black ink, bottom center: GABON-DEUX PETITS AMIS; printed on reverse, in brown ink, along center, from bottom to top: Societe des Mission Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris; inscribed on reverse, in graphite, top center: GABON

Course History

ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015

ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015

Exhibition History

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.

Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology 3, Winter 2015, Chelsey Kivland, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2014-March 15,2015.

Provenance

Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.

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