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Description
Annotation translation: "The chief of Bamum has several hundred wives. Each has the right to her own household. In contrast to the Grassfields women they are fully clothed and wear high hair-arrangements in the Assyrian style." "Vollbehr Art postcards 'Cameroon'." "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon." Annotation: "Der Bamumhäuptling hat mehrere hundert Frauen jede hat Anspruch auf eigene Häuslichkeit. Im Gegensatz zu den Graslandweibern gehen diese völlig bekleidet und tragen hohe Haarfrisuren in altassyrischem Stil." - "Vollbehr-Künstlerpostkarten 'Kamerun'." - "Alleinvertrieb: Basler Missionshandlung, Duala (Kamerun)." Note: Vorlage: Aquarell von Ernst Vollbehr. - Von Prof. T. A. Freyvogel, Tropeninstitut Basel erhalten. Note translation: "Original: water-colour by Ernst Vollbehr". Stamped: "-- Mai 1975."
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
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