* Théodore Delachaux (1879-1949) - Charles-Émile Thiébaud (1910-1995 )Second Swiss scientific mission in Angola, March 21, 1932 - December 1, 1933. Countries & Peoples of Angola. King Katyila. Crocodile. Hunter and lion. Mulondo shepherd. Scarifications. King Eiambo. The daughter of King Ndumba. Nganguela mask. Giraffe killed near Mupa. Bushman woman smoking a water pipe. Bushman hunter. Rhinoceros. Pangolin. Bishop of Angola and King Ngalangue. Lunda. Easter mass. Lizard. Himba woman. Departure for fishing. Tyimba woman. Flute player. A great sorcerer prepares the ordination of a subaltern priestess. Millet oven. Nyemba woman. Among the Vimbundus in Ebanga. Among the tyipungi. Fishing among the vavale. Choristers in a witchcraft scene. School of initiation. Tyivokwe mask. Young dmupa girl. Nyembas. Humbis women. Doctor-midwife kuamatui. Divination scene. Kuanyama potter. Woman sewing a grain basket. Two folio cases and a box, titled or annotated on the spine, composed respectively of 47, 42 and 141 silver prints from the period glued by the corners on cardboard, used for the publication Pays & Peuples d'Angola (1934). Numerous captions on the mounts and stamp "Photo-Centrale Sauser - Neuchatel" on the backs. Two plates of captions and credits in the third volume. Size: from 6 x 6 to 18 x 18 cm with margins. A set of handwritten or typescript texts by Charles-Émile Thiébaud used for the writing of the book Pays & Peuples d'Angola or articles, notably for the Presse Suisse Moyenne is attached . Bibliography : Theodore Delachaux - Charles-Émile Thiébaud, Pays & Peuples d'Angola. Studies. Souvenirs and photos, Neuchâtel, Édition Victor Attinger, 1934. From March 1932 to November 1933, under the direction of the naturalist Albert Monard, the second Swiss mission in Angola had the project of gathering zoological, paleontological and ethnographic collections by radiating from the Cubango to the Mukoti, the Cuvelai, the Lunda, the Cunene and the country of the Cuanyama. Théodore Delachaux, curator of the Museum of Ethnography in Neuchâtel, and Charles-Émile Thiébaud, assistant at the Institute of Geology of the University of Neuchâtel, took several thousand photographs during the mission. Traditional dances and architectures, magic-religious ceremonies, masks and jewelry, local chiefs and scenes of daily life make up this long-term reportage, some of which will serve as illustrations for the book Pays & Peuples d'Angola, published upon their return.
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* Théodore Delachaux (1879-1949) - Charles-Émile Thiébaud (1910-1995
)Second Swiss scientific mission in Angola, March 21, 1932 - December 1, 1933.
Countries & Peoples of Angola.
King Katyila. Crocodile. Hunter and lion. Mulondo shepherd. Scarifications. King Eiambo. The daughter of King Ndumba. Nganguela mask. Giraffe killed near Mupa. Bushman woman smoking a water pipe. Bushman hunter. Rhinoceros. Pangolin. Bishop of Angola and King Ngalangue. Lunda. Easter mass. Lizard. Himba woman. Departure for fishing. Tyimba woman. Flute player. A great sorcerer prepares the ordination of a subaltern priestess. Millet oven. Nyemba woman. Among the Vimbundus in Ebanga. Among the tyipungi. Fishing among the vavale. Choristers in a witchcraft scene. School of initiation. Tyivokwe mask. Young dmupa girl. Nyembas. Humbis women. Doctor-midwife kuamatui. Divination scene. Kuanyama potter. Woman sewing a grain basket.
Two folio cases and a box, titled or annotated on the spine, composed respectively of 47, 42 and 141 silver prints from the period glued by the corners on cardboard, used for the publication Pays & Peuples d'Angola (1934). Numerous captions on the mounts and stamp "Photo-Centrale Sauser - Neuchatel" on the backs. Two plates of captions and credits in the third volume.
Size: from 6 x 6 to 18 x 18 cm with margins.
A set of handwritten or typescript texts by Charles-Émile Thiébaud used for the writing of the book Pays & Peuples d'Angola or articles, notably for the Presse Suisse Moyenne is attached
.
Bibliography :
Theodore Delachaux - Charles-Émile Thiébaud, Pays & Peuples d'Angola. Studies. Souvenirs and photos, Neuchâtel, Édition Victor Attinger, 1934. From March 1932 to November 1933, under the direction of the naturalist Albert Monard, the second Swiss mission in Angola had the project of gathering zoological, paleontological and ethnographic collections by radiating from the Cubango to the Mukoti, the Cuvelai, the Lunda, the Cunene and the country of the Cuanyama. Théodore Delachaux, curator of the Museum of Ethnography in Neuchâtel, and Charles-Émile Thiébaud, assistant at the Institute of Geology of the University of Neuchâtel, took several thousand photographs during the mission. Traditional dances and architectures, magic-religious ceremonies, masks and jewelry, local chiefs and scenes of daily life make up this long-term reportage, some of which will serve as illustrations for the book Pays & Peuples d'Angola, published upon their return.
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