Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Interior of the Royal Palace of Dahomey, Abomey with the King and the female warriors known as Amazons
1931
African history · place not specified
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.
Cataloged as “Interior of the Royal Palace of Dahomey, Abomey with the King and the female warriors known as Amazons” (Negatives (photographic)).
- Collection
- Melville Herskovits photographs
- Archival grouping
- Melville Herskovits photographs / West Africa
- Catalog date
- 1931
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
- Format and extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b/w, 4 x 5 in)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1986-029, Item EEPA 1986-290094
Collection: Melville Herskovits photographs