The Dakar-Djibouti Mission: The Spoils of the Museum of Mankind

Dakar-Djibouti 1931 : le butin du musée de l'Homme

Also known as Von Dakar nach Dschibuti – Große Beute für das Musée de l'homme, De Dakar a Yibuti: los aventureros del museo del Hombre, 1931: Misja Dakar-Dżibuti, Dakar-Gibuti 1931: gli avventurieri del Museo dell'Uomo, Dakar-Djibouti 1931: The Loot of the Museum of Man

Paris, May 1931. Black culture is in vogue at the same time that a great colonial exhibition displays the peoples of the world subjugated by the French Empire. It is then that a group of researchers travels to Africa and undertakes an ambitious ethnographic mission. On their way from Dakar to Djibouti, they collect a large number of objects destined for the Musée de l'Homme. Is it a well-intended adventure or a great plunder?