Dances Dahomey
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: Fortier 1528
label: General
content: Title source: Translated from postcard caption.
label: General
content: Image indexed by negative number.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 49: Fortier postcard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1908]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA F1528
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Picture postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Picture postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographed by Edmond Fortier and published by Collection générale Fortier, Dakar.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Original caption reads, "Afrique Occidentale - Dahomey - Jeunes Féticheuses." Translated original caption reads, "Western Africa - Dahomey - Young medicine-women."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Original accompanying text on verso reads, "29 Avril 1911, Chère Anita, Un sergent va arriver ces jours-ci, cela va faire trois dans le poste. S'il y a moyen de rentrer à Mobaye par la suite je ne vais pas me le faire dire deux fois. Dans tous les cas je vais demander." Translated accompanying text on verso reads, "Dear Anita, a seargant will arrive soon. That will make three of us. I can not wait to go back to Mobaye. I will definitly send that request."