Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage
1920-1940
Martinique, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
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 girl from Martinique in a white dress, dark boots, a madras headscarf, and a large pendant on a chain around her neck. She is a greens vendor and is holding a wicker basket filled with leaves over her left arm. She is standing inside a room with an ornamental carpet. There is a white border on the horizontal edges of the image and on left printed [306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage]. The back of the postcard is blank except for two handwritten notes on the bottom upside down, [2806] and [Martiniq]. In the center, printed vertically, [Collection Benoit-Jeannette -- Reprod. interdite]. On the right of the card, there are four horizontal lines.
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Catalog reference: 2016.151.7
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