Live auction - Lot 722
[Africa]
Private souvenir album of Dahomey (present-day Benin).
1952
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
90 silver prints, b/w, sm. size (± 8 x 11 cm), glued (but reversible) on special paper, some captioned.
Green modern cardboard 4to ad hoc album.
Essentially made of ca. 70 photos of landscapes (named here after photo labels: river Ouhémé, Paindevoine bridge, Somba houses, Natintingou, Tanguiéta, Savé, Segboroue village, on the road to Lagos...) or showing villagers in their daily life, some photos focused on musical instruments, a woman with a plateau lip, a young woman with a scarred face, a 15 year-old boy suffering from severe scrotal elephantiasis... About 20 photos related to a group of Europeans (working at the office or in friendly meetings).
Joined: 3 albumen photos. Ca. 1921. B/w, 15,5 x 20,5 cm, 2 signed in the picture "A.E. Myers" (1 soiled). Representing a factory in "Pauda" and a wooden construction.