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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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