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Theme
dwelling/house, buildings, colonial administration
Photographer
Ernest Gourdinne
Place of production
Democratic Republic of the Congo > Kasaï > Lusambo
Legend
The white colonial often construed a ‘home’ with furniture, interior design, paintings, photographs and bibelots, to create an environment that explicitly kept the memory of the familiar life in Belgium alive. However, the presence of African domestic personnel simultaneously ensured that the illusion remained extremely fragile as the home was the pre-eminent place where the encounter with the ‘colonial other’ was always very tangible.
Acquisition related person
Colonial Office, as donor
Date of acquisition
1941-02-12
Original legend
Habitation d'un colon.
Inventory number
AP.0.1.1391
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