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Bonaparte, Roland
(1858-1924)Hottentots

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Hottentots (from the series “Collection Anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte”). 1883. 30 albumen prints, mounted to board. Each between ca. 19,5 x 9,5 and 23 x 17,5 cm or reverse (mounts ca. 31,5 x 41 cm or reverse). Each mount with number stamp in black ink in the upper left corner; “Collection Prince Roland Bonaparte” blindstamp embossed in the lower margin of the mount, and the series title stamped below the image on the mount. Presented in original turquoise portfolio with decorative framing and gilt-embossed title.

The photographs in this series depict men and women labeled “Hottentots,” a now-obsolete and derogatory term historically applied to Khoikhoi and related Khoisan-speaking peoples of southern Africa. Presented in standardized frontal, profile, and rear views, the images follow contemporary anthropometric conventions and reflect the racialized classificatory frameworks through which human bodies were recorded and interpreted in late 19th-century European anthropology.