Young Medicine-Women Dahomey
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: Fortier 1531
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 F1531
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, "Coup d'oeil que vous ne verrez pas dans une soirée parisienne. Le corset est complètement proscrit dans cet heureux pays même par les "élégantes". Cette mode aurait certainement grand succès dans la capitale." Translated accompanying text on verso reads, " ."