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Sarah Baartman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman, Sartjie Baartman, Sartjee Baartman
Khoikhoi woman
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Vinony's link graph records 99 inbound references to Sarah Baartman, and connects out to The New York Times, Khoikhoi and Venus figurine.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including 1780s births, 1815 deaths and Cape Colony women.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
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)
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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.