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Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte. Hottentots.
Anthropology
Bonaparte, Roland - Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte. Hottentots.
Paris, 1888
31 albumen prints mounted on 16 cardboard (1, 2 or 3 prints per pages), various formats, captions in the margins, photographer's blindstamp.
Large folio, album n. 20 (foxing).
This portfolio contains anthropometric portraits (men, women and children posing nude against a neutral background) and group portraits at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris during the ethnographic exhibition of Hottentots in 1888. Roland Napoléon Bonaparte (1858-1924), French geographer and botanist. Between 1882-1889 he produced a photographic study of different ethnic groups, described as an "anthropological collection of human diversity". Hottentot is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa. This term is now considered offensive. A similar portfolio belongs to the collection of Musée du quai Branly in Paris.
Bonaparte, Roland - Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte. Hottentots.
Paris, 1888
31 albumen prints mounted on 16 cardboard (1, 2 or 3 prints per pages), various formats, captions in the margins, photographer's blindstamp.
Large folio, album n. 20 (foxing).
This portfolio contains anthropometric portraits (men, women and children posing nude against a neutral background) and group portraits at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris during the ethnographic exhibition of Hottentots in 1888. Roland Napoléon Bonaparte (1858-1924), French geographer and botanist. Between 1882-1889 he produced a photographic study of different ethnic groups, described as an "anthropological collection of human diversity". Hottentot is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa. This term is now considered offensive. A similar portfolio belongs to the collection of Musée du quai Branly in Paris.
€ 3.750
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