Sailors and Daughters | Early photography along the east coast of Africa

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Web Name: Sailors and Daughters | Early photography along the east coast of Africa

WebSite: http://indian-ocean.africa.si.edu

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Sailors and Daughters reveals the expansive maritime societies of Zanzibar, the east African coast, and beyond. From the 1840s, cameras traced the international migrations of traders, sailors, sons, and daughters through Indian Ocean ports, continuing trade that dates back over five millennia. East African cities flourished as hubs of both land and sea trade routes, which extended to the central African interior, Horn of Africa, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean islands, western India and the Far East.The region’s intercultural ethos generated a multitude of encounters between subjects, photographers, and the global audiences who viewed the resulting images. By gathering images from scarce and little-known collections of early photographs, lithographs, postcards, and private albums, this exhibition focuses attention on a diverse cross-section of the region’s people and their cosmopolitan cities by the sea. It serves as a starting point for a larger photographic and creative visual history of the prosperous and diverse communities of the Indian Ocean world. We thank the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., for their generous support of this online exhibition. Archives départementales de la RéunionIconothèque Historique de l’Océan Indien Sailors and Daughters is an online exhibition curated by Erin Haney, Ph.D., with the assistance of Xavier Courouble. Website design by Wilcox Design/Green Interactive. It is part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art's Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean: From Oman to East Africa project, which is supported by the generous and historic gift of $1.8 million from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center in Washington, DC. Lending institutions include the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives and the Warren M. Robbins Library at the National Museum of African Art; the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Winterton Collection, Northwestern University; the Stephen Arpee Collection of Sevruguin Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Archives départementales de La Réunion and Iconotheque de L'Ocean Indien, the Seychelles National Archives, and the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Privacy | Copyright

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