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Hottentot Venus to go home ... if French find her
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THE remains of the Hottentot Venus, a South African woman who was
brought to Europe in the early 1800s and exhibited like a circus
freak because of her enormous buttocks, may at last be returned to
her native country after lying forgotten for over a century in the
store rooms of a Paris museum.
The story of the Venus is one of the darkest and most shameful
chapters in European colonialism. Born into the Khoikhoi tribe of
southern Africa in 1789, Saartjie Baartman grew up under the
domination of the Dutch settlers who ruled the region and who
invented the name Hottentot for the Khoikhoi based ...
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Saartjie Baartman, the `Hottentot Venus', has at last been buried in the remote Gamtoos Valley in South Africa by her tribespeople. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
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France to return `Hottentot Venus'
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