Sabater’s cataloging of the tattoos did not go unnoticed by the colonial authorities who requested photographic copies to be exhibited in the museum of Santa Isabel in Guinea. A document from the ethnological archive records the whole process in a file with the prices of the reproductions – made on thread paper – and with a written list of the items to be photographed. This is the most reduced version of the description of the bodies, personalities and tattoos of the Fang: a real vice of lists that dispenses with any iconographic reproduction and only resorts to the written, hard and dry to describe what was to be sent to the Santa Isabel Museum.
Jorge Blasco Gallardo. Las listas de Santa Isabel.
Expediente y listado para obtener permiso de copia fotográfica de las fichas destinadas al museo de Santa Isabel.