MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Source catalog description

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

A photographic postcard of an unidentified woman from Martinique in the traditional Creole douillette ensemble. She is featured standing, facing towards the left of the image, with her right hand on her front holding up her dress. Her other hand is resting on an object covered with fabric in front of her. The background is a painted canvas of a forest. She is wearing a long, paisley-patterned dress with a floral foulard scarf and a madras head scarf. The photograph has a white border and underneath the image, printed in black, [Cliché Fabre - Leboullanger, éditeur, à Fort-de-France / MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole]. A circular stamp in black ink on the right bottom corner of the image says, [BAUER [indecipherable] / ET / CIE / DIJON]. The back of the postcard is unused and has [CARTE POSTALE] printed in black at the top. Below, are blank spaces for [CORRESPONDANCE] and [ADRESSE].

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