Chief's wife in the Bamileke region

A comment written on the back of the photograph says: "Her breast with exuberant tatoos, the ear pierced, she came out, the African woman, on the doorway of her hut made with cob, a naked child on her waist. She has only a loincloth and her child has only three row of pearls; she is the chief's wife. The sadness of her face looking at the floor is the sign of her destiny. From 1945 to 1959, Daniel Broussous was the head doctor of the protestant hospital of Bangwa, set up by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society) in the south of the region Bamileke in 1935. Broussous took many photographs documenting the art, the architecture, the traditions and the daily-life of Bamileke chieftainships. He also made several films.