"Cdv - Ashanti Warrior, Ghana. Africa. 1887"
Ashanti warrior from Ghana.Albumen print mounted on cardboard. An ink stamp on the back "Jardin Zoologique d'Acclimatation. Secretariat. September 6, 1887. Paris".
Between 1877 and 1937, millions of Parisian visitors flocked to the Jardin d'Acclimatation to discover these new human zoos. This mode of ethnographic human exhibition will win over the whole world; 35,000 individuals will be exhibited, attracting a billion and a half curious people.
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