12 - Abomey Objets du culte des ancêstres
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA DM-03-03
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Numbering Peculiarities Note
- Verso labeled with additional accession number: A1992-02-005.
- Creator
- Toubon, Suzanne
- Place
- Africa
- Benin
- Topic
- Works of art in situ
- Asen
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Vernacular architecture -- Africa
- Creator
- Toubon, Suzanne
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA DM 1985-144041
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Postcard image of several assen, displayed in front of a building. Printed text on verso reads: "12 - Abomey; Objets du culte des ancêstres." Tranlated caption reads: "Religious Objects of the Ancestors."
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition Suzanne Toubon - Marseille / Tous droits de reproduction réservés."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087470-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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