Printed text on recto reads: "Congo Français. / Femmes et enfants Boubous."
Translated caption reads: "French Congo. / Boubous women and children."
Postmarked postage stamp on recto. Manuscript message and address on verso. Postmark on verso.
This picture was taken by Auguste Béchaud ca. 1909 in a Ngbugu village nearby Mobaye in the Oubangui River. There is a woman at rest, sitting on a wood bed called krékoi (pronounced "creakwaw" in English. The whole group is posing in front of a typical Ngbugu hut. [Provided by Juan Fandos-Ruis and Didier Carité] [Sources: Bradshaw, Richard and Juan Fandos-Rius, "Béchaud, Augustee (1874-1912)" in Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic, 111. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, New Editions 2016. Carité, Didier, Auguste Béchaud, photographe-soldat en Afrique centrale 1909-1912, 2009.]
Local Numbers:
EEPA CX-12-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Provenance:
I.U.: Indiana University collection; Donation.
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