Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress

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Photograph of a woman wearing a traditional Creole chemise jupe ensemble leaning on a column in a studio. She is facing directly forward and has one arm placed on the column and the other holding her hip under her skirt. She is wearing a white blouse with a patterned foulard scarf tucked into her full-length, dark, floral-patterned skirt or jupe. She is wearing a madras head scarf with large ornamentation. She also wears traditional jewelry such as the gold collier-choux necklace and large earrings. The photograph has a white border surrounding the image. The back is blank but has handwritten text in the upper left quadrant [531582].

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