Femme Hova en Deuil
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA MG-20-01
- Local Note
- temp 1
- Creator
- Collection S.
- Place
- Africa
- Madagascar
- Topic
- Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Portrait photography
- Costume -- Africa
- Women
- Creator
- Collection S.
- 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
- ca. 1906
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA MG 2012-001-0414
- 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
- Original caption reads, "Hova woman in bereavement." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Manjakandrian, 15 March 1908," and on verso, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 8 March 1908," and Manjakandreian, Madagascar, 15 March 1908."
- Additional printed text on recto reads: "Collection S., Déposé."
- Original hand-written address on verso, "Mademoiselle Madeleine Chez Mr Paul Cortinox 27 rue Malar Paris."
- Original hand-written text on recto, "Mantasoa, La 14 mars 1906 ma madeline Comma letter que j' ws jour, je s'euooie eelle belle Hova qui a son mais qui se avec un Vozaha ( ) - ma ex excellente ." Translation of hand-written text, "Mantasoa 14 March 1906. As follows in this letter that I am sending this day, I send this beautiful Hova who has lost her husband but who consoles herself with a ("Vazaha")? ( ) -my health is always excellent and send you all three thousand kisses."
- Items EEPA MG-20-01 and EEPA MG-23-19 are duplicate postcards.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088181-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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