Native Women "Femmes Indigenes"
J. N. Alcobia, Belgian (worked in Belgian Congo), late 19th - early 20th century
early 20th century
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
2006.18.9
Publisher
Edition de la maison Moura & Irmão
Geography
Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, bottom center: Femmes indigenes.; printed, on reverse, in black ink: Carte Postale / Congo Belge - Leopoldville; printed, on reverse, in black ink, along left side, from bottom to top: Phot de J.N. Alcobia. Edition de la maison Monra & Irmao; stamped on reverse, in blue ink: Cartes Postales documentaires/1979/Collection/Louis/HESSENBRUCH/No._ [with 79 handwritten in blue ink]
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
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.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 260, figure 8.1.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
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