Gabon - Deux Petits Amis (Gabon - Two Little Babies)
Unknown Gabonese, Gabonese
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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