Souvenir du Carnival, Photograph of French Antillean dress

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Photograph of four women dressed in traditional Creole ensembles, chemise jupes and douillettes. Three women are standing and the woman at the left center is seated. The two women on the ends are wearing traditional chemise jupes with long white chemises with skirts or jupes tied at their waists. They are wearing madras headscarves, holding white fans, and their right arms are crooked at their hips. The seated woman is wearing a long-sleeved patterned douillette ensemble with a dark-colored foulard shawl tucked at the waist and wrapped around her shoulders. She wears a madras headscarf. She has one arm resting in her lap and the other crooked at the hip. The woman standing at center right is wearing a shiny sleeveless dress and a pill box hat. The photograph has a white border and rough edges. The back of the photograph has writing in pen and graphite.

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