DAKAR Femme Volof

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Text on front reads: "31. DAKAR - Femme Volof. Collection Gautron." Translated postcard caption reads, "31. DAKAR - Woman wolof." 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." 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.".

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)

Catalog date

[19--]

Recorded places

Africa; Senegal

Recorded subjects

Portraits; Calabashes

Format and extent

1 Postcard (b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)

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