Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Behanzin Palace Dahomey
[ca. 1908]
Africa
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 - Monom̂e de Fét́icheuses devant l'Enceinte du Palais Béhanzin a ̀Abomey." Translated original caption reads, " Western Africa - Dahomey - Medicine-women procession in front of the Behanzin Palace.".
- 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 (col., 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA F1495
Collection: African Postcard Collection