Young Medicine-Women Dahomey

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.

Photographed by Edmond Fortier and published by Collection générale Fortier, Dakar. Original caption reads, "Afrique Occidentale - Dahomey - Jeunes Féticheuses." Translated original caption reads, "Western Africa - Dahomey - Young medicine-women." 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, " .".

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 49: Fortier postcard collection

Catalog date

[ca. 1908]

Recorded places

Africa

Recorded subjects

Rites and ceremonies -- Africa

Format and extent

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

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