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Sarah Baartman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman, Sartjie Baartman, Sartjee Baartman
Khoikhoi woman
Key facts
- Born
- Ssehura? , c. 1789 , Gamtoos Valley , Eastern Cape
- Died
- 29 December 1815 (aged 26), Paris , France
- Resting place
- Vergaderingskop, Hankey , Eastern Cape , South Africa, 33°50′14″S 24°53′05″E / 33.8372°S 24.8848°E / -33.8372; 24.8848
- Other names
- Hottentot Venus, Saartjie Baartman
- Citizenship
- Cape Colony (now South Africa) – under Dutch/British colonial rule
- Education
- No formal education recorded
- Occupations
- Servant, exhibited performer ("freak show" displays in Europe)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Gamtoos River
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- performing artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Saartjie Baartman (portrait).jpg
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- Commons category
- Saartjie Baartman
- place of burial
- Hankey
- date of death
- 1815-12-29
- ethnic group
- Khoikhoi
- date of birth
- 1789-00-00
- cause of death
- smallpox
- manner of death
- natural causes
- social classification
- artist
- name in native language
- Sarah Baartman
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Baartman ( Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the Dutch diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrki]), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoekhoe woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited. The women were exhibited for their steatopygic body type – uncommon in Northwestern Europe – that was perceived as a curiosity at that time, and became subject of scientific interest as well as of erotic projection.
La Belle Hottentote, a 19th-century French print of Baartman
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarah Baartman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.