Attende dallo stregone il responso sulla donna scappata di casa
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA KE-23-06
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Creator
- Calcocromia I.G.D.A. (Novara)
- Consolata Missionaries
- Place
- Africa
- Kenya
- Topic
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Shamans
- Households -- Africa
- Provenance
- Alvin Pettit Productions (Kevin Jackson), 34 Astor Place, Jersey City, NJ 07304-2943; Purchase: PO-570-0000207633; 20100729 EEPA 2010-025.
- Creator
- Calcocromia I.G.D.A. (Novara)
- Consolata Missionaries
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 23: Kenya (KE)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 8.5 x 13.5 cm.)
- Date
- circa 1920
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA KE 2010-025-0040
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture 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
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Printed caption on recto reads: "Serie XX. - Stregoni E Stregonerie - 199 / Nelle Missioni Della Consolata - Attende dallo stregone il responso sulla donna scappata di casa."
- Translated caption reads: "Series XX. - Witchdoctors and Witchcraft - 199 / Consolata Missions - A man awaits the response from the witchdoctor regarding his wife who has escaped from home."
- Printed title on verso reads: "Missioni Della Consolata / 14, Corso Ferrucio - Torino (117)."
- Additional printed message on verso.
- Printed publication attribution on verso reads: "Calcocromia I.G.D.A. - Novara / Vendibili presso le Missioni della Consolata. - Riprod. vietata."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088129-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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