306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photographic postcard of an unidentified girl from Martinique in a white dress, dark boots, a madras headscarf, and a large pendant on a chain around her neck. She is a greens vendor and is holding a wicker basket filled with leaves over her left arm. She is standing inside a room with an ornamental carpet. There is a white border on the horizontal edges of the image and on left printed [306 - MARTINIQUE - Yon ti ma coumè zébage]. The back of the postcard is blank except for two handwritten notes on the bottom upside down, [2806] and [Martiniq]. In the center, printed vertically, [Collection Benoit-Jeannette -- Reprod. interdite]. On the right of the card, there are four horizontal lines.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1920-1940
• Published by: Armand Benoit-Jeannette
• Photograph by: Armand Benoit-Jeannette
• Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children
• Type: postcards
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, with ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (14 × 8.9 cm)
• Place captured: Martinique, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: France, Europe
• Cultural Place: Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African diaspora
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Colonialism
• Topic: Correspondence
• Topic: Fashion
• Topic: Freedom
• Topic: French colonialism
• Object number: 2016.151.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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