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133 - Savé Le roi dans sa tenue d'apparat
[ca. 1910]
Africa; Benin; Benin -- Zou -- Save
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.
Postcard image of a man wearing an elaborate headdress. Printed text on verso reads: "133 - Savé / Le roi dans sa tenue d'apparat." Translated caption reads: [Savé / The king in his ceremonial dress].
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1910]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Benin; Benin -- Zou -- Save
- Recorded subjects
- Leaders; Portraits -- Africa; Costume -- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA DM 1985-144031
Collection: African Postcard Collection