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255 - Anthropological collection of Prince Roland Bonaparte.
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Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
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Anthropological collection of Prince Roland Bonaparte. Hottentots. 31 albumen prints mounted on 16 cardboards (1, 2 or 3 prints per page), various formats, captions in the margins, photographer's blindstamp. - This portfolio contains anthropometric portraits (men, women and children posing nude against a neutral background) and group portraits at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris during the ethnographic exhibition of Hottentots in 1888. Roland Napoléon Bonaparte (1858-1924), was a French geographer and botanist. Between 1882-1889, he produced a photographic study of different ethnic groups, described as an "anthropological collection of human diversity". Hottentot is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa. This term is now considered offensive. A similar portfolio belongs to the collection of Musée du quai Branly in Paris.
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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Auction time 06/24/2026 at 1:00 PM
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