Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Orientale Province -- Niangara
Date:
1925
Scope and Contents:
Printed recto caption reads: "La Croisière Noire / Femme d'un chef Mangbetu (Congo Belge)." Translated postcard caption reads: "The Black Cruise / Wife of a Mangbetu chief."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Expèdition Citroen - Centre Afrique / Deuxième Mission Haardt-Audouin Dubreuil." Translated additional text reads: "Citroen expedition - Central Africa. Second mission Haardt-Audouin Dubreuil."
Item published with the following caption: "Mangbetu woman Nobosodrou, wife of Mangbetu king Touba, Niangara, Belgian Congo." Photograph by Léon Poirier and Georges Specht during the French Citroen Expedition through Africa. March, 1925.
Items EEPA CG-20-75 and EEPA CG-20-76 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-75
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Provenance:
I.U.: Indiana University collection; Donation.
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Collection Rights:
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