La Vie à Madagascar Hovas jouant de la "Valiha."
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA MG-19-13
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Place
- Africa
- Madagascar
- Topic
- Music
- Costume -- Africa
- Musicians
- Portrait photography -- Africa
- Provenance
- Ciro Tadeo; donation; FY 2010; EEPA 2010-006
- Culture
- Merina (Malagasy people)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 26: Madagascar (MG)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
- Date
- circa 1910
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA MG 2010-006-0002
- 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: "La Vie à Madagascar. - Hovas jouant de la 'Valiha'."
- Translated caption reads: "Life in Madagascar. - Hova [(Merina)] playing the 'Valiha'."
- Stamp box on verso reads: "Chocolat Louit."
- Items EEPA MG-19-05 and EEPA MG-19-13 bear duplicate recto images.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088158-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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