COLONIALISM / " Satyres de l'Afrique Noire " by Doctor Gasto - Lot 194

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COLONIALISM / " Satyres de l'Afrique Noire " by Doctor Gasto - Lot 194
COLONIALISM / " Satyres de l'Afrique Noire " by Doctor Gaston MURAZ, Edition du Comité de Documentation et de Propagande de l'Afrique Noire Française ", Paris 1947, 464 p (period yellow paper, 16 x 24,5 cm), with 152 photographs in plates on coated paper and 2 maps - Edifying memoirs of this colonial military doctor who for 30 years travelled in all directions through the bushes of Equatorial and West Africa, He brings back photo testimonies such as sleeping sickness (terminally ill), goitreous patients, polygamy ("Damolé polygamous chief with his 9 wives and 35 children"), termite eaters, women with trays, hairstyles, scar tattoos, ritual clitoridectomy, breast dancing, sex covers, numerous scenes of colonialists posing with their captures (caiman, warthog, elk, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, elephant, gorilla), butchering of a hippopotamus etc.
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