DAKAR Femme Volof
odd: label: General
content: Image indexed by negative number.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Senegal
topic: label: Topic
content: Portraits
label: Topic
content: Calabashes
culture: label: Culture
content: Wolof (African people)
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [19--]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SG-20-20
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Text on front reads: "31. DAKAR - Femme Volof. Collection Gautron."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Translated postcard caption reads, "31. DAKAR - Woman wolof."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Additional handwritten text on verso reads, "Je t'envoie mes meilleurs amities de Dakar. Nous avons tous abordes ce matin au quai avec le casque visse sur la tete et en blanc de la tete a la cheville, car nos souliers sont noirs reglementairement. Nous allons cet apres midi pousser une pointe a la caserne des bigors: nous avons deja repere deux x jeunes que nous visiterons cet apres midi. Bien a toi."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Translated handwritten text on verso reads, "I send you my best regards from Dakar. We have all boarded this morning at the quai with our helmets screwed on our heads and in white from head to ankle, as our shoes are black in keeping with regulations. We are going this afternoon to the Bigors' barracks: we have twice spotted young ones that we will visit this afternoon. Best to you."