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Madagascar - Côte Est Ficelage d'un horizane mort
ca. 1906
Africa; Madagascar
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.
Original caption reads, "Madagascar - East Coast - Tying Up of a horizontal Body." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 16 August 1906.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 26: Madagascar (MG)
- Catalog date
- ca. 1906
- Recorded places
- Africa; Madagascar
- Recorded subjects
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Vernacular architecture -- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 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 MG 2012-001-0423
Collection: African Postcard Collection