IDNO

P.7251.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Bushman woman. The Hottentot Venus.

Place

S Africa; ?South Africa

Cultural Affliation

Khoi Khoi

Named Person

Sarah Baartman (also known or spelt as Sartjee; Sarah Bartman, Bartmann, Bartmen)

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1810

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Named Person: Sarah "Saartjie" Baartman (before 1790 – 29 December 1815) (also spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen) was the earliest and most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name “The Hottentot Venus”.
Sarah's remains were repatriated from Musee de l’Homme in 2002 and "buried on Women’s Day, 9 August 2002, in the area of her birth, the Gamtoos River Valley in the Eastern Cape. [Source: http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/saartjie.htm#.UPagDY7C_7o#ixzz2I8r3LWWw, JD 1/16/2013]