Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32364
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
181 (previous number (donor's original number), Negative number?)
Accession number:
Acc.4054 and Acc.4115
Description:
4" x 5" Negative. Kiya Be, French Congo. Two women with disks in their nose. The woman on the right has a stretched lip with disk in her lip. Hoefler's original description: "French Congo. Leaders of the social set. This practice originated in order to prevent the capture of their women by the slave raiders. After the need had passed the disfigurement was carried on as an established custom. The older the woman, the larger the disks, and the larger the disk the higher her social standing. They are now forbidden to dilate the lips by the French government.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Kiya Be, French Congo
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1928-1929
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32364, described as 4" x 5" Negative. Kiya Be, French Congo. Two women with disks in their nose. The woman on the right has a stretched lip with disk in her lip. Hoefler's original description: "French Congo. Leaders of the social set. This practice originated in order to prevent the capture of their women by the slave raiders. After the need had passed the disfigurement was carried on as an established custom. The older the woman, the larger the disks, and the larger the disk the higher her social standing. They are now forbidden to dilate the lips by the French government.

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